openrisc: signal: do not restore privileged SR bits on sigreturn
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.266, 5.15.217, 6.1.184, 6.6.153, 6.12.105, 6.18.46, 7.1.10, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80560
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gfrq-95rp-6g53
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc2e24ba6e167ccf374a197457aa5640a802f429
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf1b5514ddf9df098ce7e3741fc9679fd85a4ec6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8b43a71755c516f5c1f265a103438ae9ab15be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4d73c3848bae9084fa8b9b2aa76d99a7d8eb17d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89a91b30685c0493b0fa2b47d0ab41061a63069d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a88d688be8d7f03cbf927f2ab454ea9fa58d2979
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/212fc482ddd7f9ccdd74a05eab1cac849350dcd6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32ef1b30ad736519f7a207bcc2986f3d4129d972
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Sources
- CVE-2026-80560 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-80560 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-gfrq-95rp-6g53 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-80560 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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