CVE-2018-7273

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel through 4.15.4, the floppy driver reveals the addresses of kernel functions and global variables using printk calls within the function show_floppy in drivers/block/floppy.c. An attacker can read this information from dmesg and use the addresses to find the locations of kernel code and data and bypass kernel security protections such as KASLR.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44325/

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/20/669

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103088

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-02-21

Updated: 2019-03-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

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