CVE-2018-5995 (GCVE-0-2018-5995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-07 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:47
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-08-07 00:00
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