CVE-2021-35477

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

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because a certain preempting store operation does not necessarily occur before a store operation that has an attacker-controlled value.

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-2021-35477

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35477.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.13.13.hardened1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.46-4
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.46-4
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.46-4
debian debiansidfixed5.10.46-4
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.46-4

References

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