Vigil@nce - Linux kernel : information disclosure via Powerpc FP/VMX Transaction Interrupt
septembre 2019 par Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products : Linux, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity : 1/4.
Consequences : data reading.
Provenance : user shell.
Confidence : confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date : 10/09/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can read a memory fragment via Powerpc FP/VMX
Transaction Interrupt of the Linux kernel, in order to obtain
sensitive information.
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