CVE-2019-15030
MEDIUMLinux Kernel < 5.2.14 - Unauthenticated Information Disclosure via PowerPC Vector Register Access
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel through 5.2.14 on the powerpc platform, a local user can read vector registers of other users' processes via a Facility Unavailable exception. 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 of a missing arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c check.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8205d5d98ef7f155de211f5e2eb6ca03d95a5a60
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/10/3
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4135-2/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4135-1/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0740
Scores
CVSS v3
4.4
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
23.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-862
Status
published
Products (8)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
19.04
linux/linux_kernel
< 5.2.14
opensuse/leap
15.0
opensuse/leap
15.1
redhat/enterprise_linux
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
Published
Sep 13, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026