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CVE-2018-1091

In the flush_tmregs_to_thread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a guest kernel crash can be trigge

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Summary

In the flush_tmregs_to_thread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a guest kernel crash can be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a core dump on a POWER host due to a missing processor feature check and an erroneous use of transactional memory (TM) instructions in the core dump path, leading to a denial of service.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • n/a Linux kernel v4.13 and newer

    Version range not reported

References 8

bugzilla.redhat.com

kernel.org

marc.info

access.redhat.com

git.kernel.org

GitHub · torvalds/linux

openwall.com