Security Advisory

CVE-2019-13648

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-07-19 12:53:01
Last updated 2024-08-04 23:57:39
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.2.1 on the powerpc platform, when hardware transactional memory is disabled, a local user can cause a denial of service (TM Bad Thing exception and system crash) via a sigreturn() system call that sends a crafted signal frame. This affects arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c and arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c.