CVE-2018-14656 (GCVE-0-2018-14656)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-08 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:38
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Summary
A missing address check in the callers of the show_opcodes() in the Linux kernel allows an attacker to dump the kernel memory at an arbitrary kernel address into the dmesg log.
Severity
CWE
Assigner
References
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| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041804 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/t… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180828154901.11272… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/9 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/d… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Date Public
2018-09-13 00:00
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