CVE-2019-15030

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.2.14 - Unauthenticated Information Disclosure via PowerPC Vector Register Access

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 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
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