CVE-2017-1000255

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OR cpe:2.3:h:ibm:powerpc_power8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:ibm:powerpc_power9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 03:04

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101264 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101264 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
References () https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654 - () https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654 -
References () https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000255 - Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory () 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


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Products Affected

ibm

  • powerpc_power9
  • powerpc_power8

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write