Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: information disclosure via BPF Pointer Arithmetic
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Linux.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 04/02/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via BPF Pointer
Arithmetic of the Linux kernel, in order to obtain sensitive
information.
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