Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: information disclosure via Powerpc FP/VMX Unavailable Exception
September 2019 by 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
Unavailable Exception of the Linux kernel, in order to obtain
sensitive information.
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