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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-09-13T13:15:11.557

Modified: 2021-07-21T11:39:23.747

Link: CVE-2019-15031

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-09-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-15031 - Bugzilla