On Linux running on PowerPC hardware (Power8 or later) a user process can craft a signal frame and then do a sigreturn so that the kernel will take an exception (interrupt), and use the r1 value *from the signal frame* as the kernel stack pointer. As part of the exception entry the content of the signal frame is written to the kernel stack, allowing an attacker to overwrite arbitrary locations with arbitrary values. The exception handling does produce an oops, and a panic if panic_on_oops=1, but only after kernel memory has been over written. This flaw was introduced in commit: 5d176f751ee3 (powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace) which was merged upstream into v4.9-rc1. Please note that kernels built with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=n are not vulnerable.
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| Product Name | Status | Defect | Fixed | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | ||||
| Wind River Linux LTS 17 | Fixed |
LIN10-2505 |
10.17.41.4 |
Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.4 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.5 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.6 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.7 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.8 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.9 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.10 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.11 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.12 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.13 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.14 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.15 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.16 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.17 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.18 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.20 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.21 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.22 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.23 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.24 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.25 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.26 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.27 |
| Wind River Linux 8 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 9 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 21 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 22 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 18 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 19 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux CD release | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 6 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 23 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 24 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks | ||||
| VxWorks 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks 6.9 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | ||||
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| eLxr | ||||
| eLxr 12 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Studio Cloud Platform | ||||
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