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CVE record · CVE-2021-4159

kernel: A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's EBPF verifier when handling internal data…

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0025 · 16th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 24 Aug 2022, 15:10 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given kernel
  • affected Fixed in v5.7-rc1
Identifiers
CVE-2021-4159
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-202
Tags
Published
24 Aug 2022
Updated
2 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0025, the 16th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 24 Aug 2022, 15:10 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 24 Aug 2022, 16:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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