CVE-2018-14656
HIGH
7
CVSS Score
Published: October 8, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:41 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel
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Severity
HIGH7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v ≤ 4.184.19 rc1
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041804x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1650x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14656x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342db04ae71273322f0011384a9ed414df8bdae4x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180828154901.112726-1-jannh%40google.com/T/x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/9CVSS
7HIGHredhat
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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