PoC Index

CVE-2019-15031

MEDIUM 4.4EPSS 0.6%

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.

CVSS v3.1
4.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CVSS v2.0
3.6 LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
EPSS
0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 44th percentile
Published
2019-09-13
Updated
2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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