CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80560
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-08-27
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/212fc482ddd7f9ccdd74a05eab1cac849350dcd6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32ef1b30ad736519f7a207bcc2986f3d4129d972 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89a91b30685c0493b0fa2b47d0ab41061a63069d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a88d688be8d7f03cbf927f2ab454ea9fa58d2979 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4d73c3848bae9084fa8b9b2aa76d99a7d8eb17d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc2e24ba6e167ccf374a197457aa5640a802f429 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8b43a71755c516f5c1f265a103438ae9ab15be git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf1b5514ddf9df098ce7e3741fc9679fd85a4ec6 git.kernel.org