openrisc: signal: do not restore privileged SR bits on sigreturn (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80560
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openrisc: signal: do not restore privileged SR bits on sigreturn restore_sigcontext() copies the whole supervision register (SR) from the signal frame and only clears SPR_SR_SM before the value is reloaded into the hardware SR (through ESR and l.rfe) on the return to user space. All other SR bits are left under user control. An unprivileged task can thus return from a signal handler through a crafted sigframe that clears SPR_SR_DME. With the data MMU disabled the CPU performs no translation or protection on data accesses, so the task gains read and write access to arbitrary physical memory, a local privilege escalation. SPR_SR_IME, SPR_SR_SUMRA, SPR_SR_LEE, SPR_SR_EPH and the cache-enable bits are exposed the same way. The ptrace GPR regset already refuses any change to SR for exactly this reason. Restore only the arithmetic flag bits (F, CY, OV) from the signal frame and take every privileged control bit from the SR the kernel saved on signal entry. Verified with qemu-system-or1k -M or1k-sim: before this change an unprivileged PoC clears SPR_SR_DME in rt_sigreturn and writes a marker to physical address 0x03000000 (beyond the kernel's mem=32M); afterwards the same PoC receives SIGSEGV and physical memory is unchanged.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ac689eb7f9d4e270d1365853b82eece669387e2c < bc2e24ba6e167ccf374a197457aa5640a802f429 ; affected ac689eb7f9d4e270d1365853b82eece669387e2c < cf1b5514ddf9df098ce7e3741fc9679fd85a4ec6 ; affected ac689eb7f9d4e270d1365853b82eece669387e2c < cd8b43a71755c516f5c1f265a103438ae9ab15be ; affected ac689eb7f9d4e270d1365853b82eece669387e2c < b4d73c3848bae9084fa8b9b2aa76d99a7d8eb17d ; affected ac689eb7f9d4e270d1365853b82eece669387e2c < 89a91b30685c0493b0fa2b47d0ab41061a63069d ; affected ac689eb7f9d4e270d1365853b82eece669387e2c < a88d688be8d7f03cbf927f2ab454ea9fa58d2979
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.1 ; unaffected 0 < 3.1 ; unaffected 5.10.266 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.217 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.184 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.153 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD