DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3490
The eBPF ALU32 bounds tracking for bitwise ops (AND, OR and XOR) in the Linux kernel did not properly update 32-bit bounds, which could be turned into out of bounds reads and writes in the Linux kernel and therefore, arbitrary code execution. This issue was fixed via commit 049c4e13714e ("bpf: Fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations") (v5.13-rc4) and backported to the stable kernels in v5.12.4, v5.11.21, and v5.10.37. The AND/OR issues were introduced by commit 3f50f132d840 ("bpf: Verifier, do explicit ALU32 bounds tracking") (5.7-rc1) and the XOR variant was introduced by 2921c90d4718 ("bpf:Fix a verifier failure with xor") ( 5.10-rc1).
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | linux | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | linux | 0, 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- pivik271/CVE-2021-3490 (github-poc-repo)
- Research implementation demonstrating interaction with Linux eBPF subsystem related to CVE-2021-3490. Includes BPF map creation, syscall wrappers, namespace setup, and verifier analysis. For educational and security research purposes only. (github-poc-repo)
- prabeershakya/CVE-2021-3490-POC (github-poc-repo)
- prabeershakya/CVE-2021-3490-POC (github-poc)
- Research implementation demonstrating interaction with Linux eBPF subsystem related to CVE-2021-3490. Includes BPF map creation, syscall wrappers, namespace setup, and verifier analysis. For educational and security research purposes only. (github-poc)
- pivik271/CVE-2021-3490 (github-poc)
- chompie1337/Linux_LPE_eBPF_CVE-2021-3490 (github-poc)
Timeline
- Jun 4, 2021 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated