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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-09-13T12:37:22

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:34:53.134Z

Reserved: 2019-08-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-15030

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-09-13T13:15:11.493

Modified: 2020-08-24T17:37:01.140

Link: CVE-2019-15030

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-09-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-15030 - Bugzilla