CVE-2019-13648

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

In the Linux kernel through 5.2.1 on the powerpc platform, when hardware transactional memory is disabled, a local user can cause a denial of service (TM Bad Thing exception and system crash) via a sigreturn() system call that sends a crafted signal frame. This affects arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c and arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13648

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13648.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.2.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.2.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.2.6-1
debian debiansidfixed5.2.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.2.6-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.