CVE-2021-33624

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, a branch can be mispredicted (e.g., because of type confusion) and consequently an unprivileged BPF program can read arbitrary memory locations via a side-channel attack, aka CID-9183671af6db.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-33624

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33624.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.12.13.hardened1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.46-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.46-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.46-1
debian debiansidfixed5.10.46-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.46-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.