CVE-2017-15537
kernel: Information leak of x86 FPU registers
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · October 17, 2017
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel, 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. This allows 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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.1CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor