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LIN10-3674 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2018-1091

Created: Apr 2, 2018    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Apr 24, 2018
Found In Version: 10.17.41.1
Fix Version: 10.17.41.7
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 17
Component/s: Kernel

Description

In the flush_tmregs_to_thread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a guest kernel crash can be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a core dump on a POWER host due to a missing processor feature check and an erroneous use of transactional memory (TM) instructions in the core dump path, leading to a denial of service.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1091

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