vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-15030: local user can read vector registers of other users' processes via a Facility Unavailable exception (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
2019-09-13
Added
2020-03-12
Modified
2024-11-27

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.

Solution

redhat-upgrade-kernel
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