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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.
Base Score
4.4| Base Score | 4.4 |
|---|---|
| Vector String | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| Base Severity | Medium |
| Version | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector (AV) | LOCAL |