IBM PowerPC Power8
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| Vendor | Ibm (177c0602-9232-5933-8f2f-9d22f079d22d) |
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| Product | Powerpc Power8 (1ffd9eca-9c26-54d5-9ecb-32853027e8c1) |
| Edition | * |
| Language | * |
| Software edition | * |
| Target software | * |
| Target hardware | * |
| Other | * |
| Notes | Imported from NVD CPE 2.0 feed |
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Vulnerability references
| Identifier | cpeApplicability | Submitted | db.gcve.eu details | Rationale |
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CVE:CVE-2017-1000255 |
not_vulnerable | 2026-06-08 05:08:34.389562 |
Details available
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.
Published: 2017-10-30T20:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-05T22:00:39.695Z |
Imported from gcve-enriched-dumps CVE data |
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