CVE-2018-14656 (GCVE-0-2018-14656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-08 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:38
VLAI
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
7 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1075 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
[UNKNOWN] kernel Affected: n/a
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Date Public
2018-09-13 00:00
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