The vulnerability in the arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c component of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c component in the Linux operating system is related to pointer arithmetic errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

The vulnerability of the rtas_os_term() function in the arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c module of the PowerPC platform’s Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the rtasosterm function in the arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c module of the PowerPC platform support for the Linux operating system is related to the improper disabling or release of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

The vulnerability of the badKernel_fault() function in the arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c module of the PowerPC platform supports the Linux operating system’s kernel, allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the badkernelfault function in the arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c module of the PowerPC platform support for the Linux operating system is related to improper control of resource identifiers “resource injection”. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a servi...

The vulnerability of the kasprintf() function in the arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c file of the Linux kernel, related to pointer arithmetic errors, allows a malicious actor to trigger a system failure.

The vulnerability of the kasprintf function in the arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c file of the Linux kernel is related to pointer arithmetic errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

The vulnerability of the kvm_spapr_tce_attach_iommu_group() function in the KVM virtualization subsystem of the Linux operating system on the PowerPC platform allows a attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the kvmspaprtceattachiommugroup function in the arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s64vio.c file, a part of the Kernel-Based Virtual Machine KVM virtualization subsystem of the Linux operating system on the PowerPC platform, relates to the reutilization of previously released memory...

CentOS 7 : kernel-alt (RHSA-2020:0174)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0174 advisory. - In the Linux kernel through 4.19, a use-after-free can occur due to a race condition between fanoutadd from setsockopt and bind on an AFPACKET socket...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-43056

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3shvrmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values...

The vulnerability of the arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c component of the Linux operating system, related to pointer dereferencing errors, allows an attacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c component of the Linux operating system is related to pointer dereferencing errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to trigger a service failure using the perf record command...

Linux kernel denial-of-service vulnerability (CNVD-2021-60515)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux Foundation's open source operating system Linux. Linux kernel is vulnerable due to a null pointer dereference and OOPS flaw in arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c. By sending a constructed perf record command, an authenticated local attacker can exploit th...

CVE-2021-38200: NULL Pointer Dereference

arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, on systems with perfeventparanoid=-1 and no specific PMU driver support registered, allows local users to cause a denial of service perfinstructionpointer NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a "perf record" command...

CVE-2019-18660: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The Linux kernel before 5.4.1 on powerpc allows Information Exposure because the Spectre-RSB mitigation is not in place for all applicable CPUs, aka CID-39e72bf96f58. This is related to arch/powerpc/kernel/entry64.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c...

CVE-2019-12817: Out-of-bounds Write

arch/powerpc/mm/mmucontextbook3s64.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.15 for powerpc has a bug where unrelated processes may be able to read/write to one another's virtual memory under certain conditions via an mmap above 512 TB. Only a subset of powerpc systems are affected...

CVE-2019-12614: NULL Pointer Dereference

An issue was discovered in dlparparseccproperty in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.6. There is an unchecked kstrdup of prop-name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash...

CVE-2018-1091: Unchecked Error Condition

In the flushtmregstothread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a guest kernel crash can be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a core dump on a POWER host due to a missing processor feature check and an erroneous use of transactional memory TM...

CVE-2017-15306: NULL Pointer Dereference

The kvmvmioctlcheckextension function in arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a KVMCHECKEXTENSION KVMCAPPPCHTM ioctl call to /dev/kvm...

CVE-2006-5331: Undefined Security Weakness

The altivecunavailableexception function in arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 on 64-bit systems mishandles the case where CONFIGALTIVEC is defined and the CPU actually supports Altivec, but the Altivec support was not detected by the kernel, which allows local users to...

CVE-2016-5412: Undefined Security Weakness

arch/powerpc/kvm/book3shvrmhandlers.S in the Linux kernel through 4.7 on PowerPC platforms, when CONFIGKVMBOOK3S64HV is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS infinite loop by making a HCEDE hypercall during the existence of a suspended transaction...

CVE-2016-5828: Improper Input Validation

The startthread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 on powerpc platforms mishandles transactional state, which allows local users to cause a denial of service invalid process state or TM Bad Thing exception, and system crash or possibly have unspecified oth...

CVE-2015-8845: Improper Access Control

The tmreclaimthread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 on powerpc platforms does not ensure that TM suspend mode exists before proceeding with a tmreclaim call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service TM Bad Thing exception and panic via a...

CVE-2010-1446: Undefined Security Weakness

arch/powerpc/mm/fslbookemmu.c in KGDB in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and other versions before 2.6.33, when running on PowerPC, does not properly perform a security check for access to a kernel page, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, related to Fsl booke...