Description
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.
Published: 2019-09-13
Score: 4.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-6118 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4135-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4135-2 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00056}

epss

{'score': 0.00076}


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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Linux Linux Kernel
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:34:53.153Z

Reserved: 2019-08-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-15031

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:27:54.680

Link: CVE-2019-15031

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2019-15031 - Bugzilla

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