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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-15537): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-15537): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/31/2017
Modified
08/25/2021

Description

The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, when a processor supports the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not correctly handle attempts to set reserved bits in the xstate header via the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system call, allowing local users to read the FPU registers of other processes on the system, related to arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c and arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-13-0-1006-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-13-0-17-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-13-0-17-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-13-0-17-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1009-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1033-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1039-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1076-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1078-snapdragon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-98-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-98-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-98-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-98-powerpc-e500mc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-98-powerpc-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-98-powerpc64-emb
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-98-powerpc64-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-e500mc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-e500mc-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-smp-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-emb
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-emb-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-smp-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon

References

  • USN-3443-1
  • USN-3443-2
  • USN-3469-1
  • USN-3469-2
  • USN-3484-1
  • USN-3484-2
  • USN-3484-3
  • USN-3485-1
  • USN-3485-2
  • USN-3485-3
  • USN-3487-1
  • USN-3488-1
  • USN-3582-1
  • USN-3582-2
  • USN-3583-1
  • USN-3583-2
  • USN-3698-1
  • USN-3698-2
  • USN-3754-1
  • CVE-2017-15537
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