vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-29154: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2022-1988)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 8, 2021
Added
May 13, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

BPF JIT compilers in the Linux kernel through 5.11.12 have incorrect computation of branch displacements, allowing them to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context. This affects arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c and arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp32.c.

Solutions

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