vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4031-1 (CVE-2019-12817): Linux kernel vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 24, 2019
Added
Jun 24, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.15 for powerpc has a bug where unrelated processes may be able to read/write to one another's virtual memory under certain conditions via an mmap above 512 TB. Only a subset of powerpc systems are affected.

Solutions

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