CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5995
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/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 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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.14.14)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105049 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/CVE-2018-5995.md Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00017.html lists.debian.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/18 seclists.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105049 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/CVE-2018-5995.md Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00017.html lists.debian.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/18 seclists.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497 www.debian.org