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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:05:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: wmealing@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel: incorrect restoration of machine specific registers from signal handler.
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> Upstream fixes:
We feel that the two listed git.kernel.org commits should have
separate CVE IDs.
> QMEU guests can also modify the same machine specific register values
> via set_one_reg and guests may invoke the same unknown state and
> callpath. Since the fix is in the same location I would argue that
> this is the same flaw.
We do not feel that there's a need for any separate CVE IDs that are
specific to this QEMU observation.
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=d2b9d2a5ad5ef04ff978c9923d19730cb05efd55
>
> Currently we allow both the MSR T and S bits to be set by userspace on
> a signal return. Unfortunately this is a reserved configuration and
> will cause a TM Bad Thing exception if attempted
Use CVE-2015-8844.
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=7f821fc9c77a9b01fe7b1d6e72717b33d8d64142
>
> This tm_reclaim() now causes a TM Bad Thing exception as this state
> has already been saved and the processor is no longer in TM suspend
> mode.
Use CVE-2015-8845.
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