Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 17, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-15537
CVE-2017-15537
Description
The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, 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, allowing 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.
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References
4- git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/814fb7bb7db5433757d76f4c4502c96fc53b0b5envdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.13.5nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-01-01nvd
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