CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5953
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The swiotlb_print_info function in lib/swiotlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.14 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg data from a "software IO TLB" printk call.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.14.14)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105045 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7d63fb3af87aa67aa7d24466e792f9d7c57d8e79 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/%20CVE-2018-5953.md Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105045 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7d63fb3af87aa67aa7d24466e792f9d7c57d8e79 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/%20CVE-2018-5953.md Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory