CVE-2017-15537

El subsistema x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) en el kernel de Linux en versiones anteriores a la 4.13.5, cuando un procesador soporta la característica xsave pero no la xsaves, no gestiona correctamente los intentos de establecer bits reservados en la cabecera xstate mediante las llamadas de sistema ptrace() o rt_sigreturn(), lo que permite que usuarios locales lean los registros FPU de otros procesos en el sistema, relacionado con arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c y arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c.

Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did not properly initialize some data structures before passing them to user space. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. Bo Zhang discovered that the netlink wireless configuration interface in the Linux kernel did not properly validate attributes when handling certain requests. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.