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CVE-2015-2672

kernel: unprivileged denial-of-service due to mis-protected xsave/xrstor instructions

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.9

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · March 18, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The xsave/xrstor implementation in arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h in the Linux kernel before 3.19.2 creates certain .altinstr_replacement pointers and consequently does not provide any protection against instruction faulting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by triggering a fault, as demonstrated by an unaligned memory operand or a non-canonical address memory operand.

Statement

Not vulnerable.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Entereprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWE not specified