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CVE-2017-15537

Published: 2017-10-17T18:29Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T03:14Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
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. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt