CVE-2017-15537

Medium

Description

The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, when a processor supports the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not correctly handle attempts to set reserved bits in the xstate header via the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system call, allowing local users to read the FPU registers of other processes on the system, related to arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c and arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedOct 17, 2017
First seenOct 17, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 4.13.4—

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