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.
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101264 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654 | |
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000255 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101264 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654 | |
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000255 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
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History
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References | () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101264 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry | |
References | () https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654 - | |
References | () https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000255 - Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2017-10-30 20:29
Updated : 2024-11-21 03:04
NVD link : CVE-2017-1000255
Mitre link : CVE-2017-1000255
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-1000255
JSON object : View
Products Affected
ibm
- powerpc_power9
- powerpc_power8
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write