CVE-2021-46908 (GCVE-0-2021-46908)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 06:53
Modified
2026-05-11 13:44
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Use correct permission flag for mixed signed bounds arithmetic
We forbid adding unknown scalars with mixed signed bounds due to the
spectre v1 masking mitigation. Hence this also needs bypass_spec_v1
flag instead of allow_ptr_leaks.
References
Impacted products
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