CVE-2018-5995

medium

Description

The pcpu_embed_first_chunk function in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.14 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg data from a "pages/cpu" printk call.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105049

https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/CVE-2018-5995.md

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00017.html

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/18

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-08-07

Updated: 2019-05-28

Type: CWE-200

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM