5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-15537

Published: 17/10/2017 Updated: 13/01/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 188
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel prior to 4.13.5, when a processor supports the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not correctly handle attempts to set reserved bits in the xstate header via the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system call, allowing local users to read the FPU registers of other processes on the system, related to arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c and arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c.

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Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel, when a processor supports the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not correctly handle attempts to set reserved bits in the xstate header via the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system call This allows local users to read the FPU registers of other processes on the system, rel ...