CVE-2018-5995

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3