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CVE-2017-15537
published 2017-10-17

CVE-2017-15537: The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, when a processor supports the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not…

PriorityP423medium5.5CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHINAN
EPSS
0.40%
32.6th percentile
The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 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.

Affected

7 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 4.13.10-1 (bookworm)linux 4.13.10-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux_kernel<= 4.13.4
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.13.10-14.13.10-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.13.10-14.13.10-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.13.10-14.13.10-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.13.10-14.13.10-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 4.4.0-98.1214.4.0-98.121

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.05.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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