VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2019-13648
CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.58%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-07-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel through 5.2.1 on the powerpc platform, when hardware transactional memory is disabled, a local user can cause a denial of service (TM Bad Thing exception and system crash) via a sigreturn() system call that sends a crafted signal frame. This affects arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c and arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399