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ghsa-w5hm-w8cx-wrwr

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:36

Modified

2023-07-28 21:30

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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 that of a running kernel.

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CVE-2020-27777 (GCVE-0-2020-27777)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-12-15 16:57

Modified

2024-08-04 16:25

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-862

Summary

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 that of a running kernel.

References

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	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900844	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/09/1	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/23/2	x_refsource_MISC
	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=next&id=bd59380c5ba4147dcbaad3e582b55ccfd120b764	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	kernel	Version: kernel 5.10-rc1

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