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.
References (7)
Scores
CVSS v3
4.4
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
15.8%
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-662
Status
published
Products (10)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
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