CVE-2019-15031

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.2.14 on the powerpc platform, a local user can read vector registers of other users' processes via an interrupt. To exploit the venerability, a local user starts a transaction (via the hardware transactional memory instruction tbegin) and then accesses vector registers. At some point, the vector registers will be corrupted with the values from a different local Linux process, because MSR_TM_ACTIVE is misused in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.4
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedSep 13, 2019
First seenSep 13, 2019

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 5.2.14—
canonical ubuntu_linux12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04—
opensuse leap15.0, 15.1—
redhat enterprise_linux7.0, 8.0—

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