CVE-2019-13648

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.2.1 on the powerpc platform, when hardware transactional memory is disabled, a local user can cause a denial of service (TM Bad Thing exception and system crash) via a sigreturn() system call that sends a crafted signal frame. This affects arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c and arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJul 19, 2019
First seenJul 19, 2019

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 5.2.1—

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