kernel: powerpc: RTAS calls can be used to compromise kernel integrity

A flaw was found in the way RTAS handled memory accesses in userspace to kernel communication. On a locked down usually due to Secure Boot guest system running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors pseries platform a root like local user could use this flaw to further increase their privileges to...

CVE-2019-12817

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...