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CVE-2019-13648
medium
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.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4495
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4116-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4115-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4114-1/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1133904/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00055.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190806-0001/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/26
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/18
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/13
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00017.html
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/f16d80b75a096c52354c6e0a574993f3b0dfbdfe