Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: information disclosure via Speculatively Out-of-bounds Loads
May 2021 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
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: 19/04/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via
Speculatively Out-of-bounds Loads of the Linux kernel, in order to
obtain sensitive information.
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