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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2019-09-13T12:45:49
Updated: 2024-08-05T00:34:53.153Z
Reserved: 2019-08-14T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-15031
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-09-13T13:15:11.557
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:27:54.680
Link: CVE-2019-15031
Redhat