It has been discovered that kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the lack of stack-pointer alignment enforcement.
It has been discovered that kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the lack of stack-pointer alignment enforcement.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2 https://git.kernel.org/linus/a5ec6ae161d72f01411169a938fa5f8baea16e8f
Workaround by disabling unprivileged bpf: sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1