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CVE-2018-14656

medium

Description

A missing address check in the callers of the show_opcodes() in the Linux kernel allows an attacker to dump the kernel memory at an arbitrary kernel address into the dmesg log.

References

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/9

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342db04ae71273322f0011384a9ed414df8bdae4

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14656

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1650

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041804

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180828154901.112726-1-jannh%40google.com/T/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-10-08

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00095