CVE-2018-5995
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5995
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5995.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-5995
- Downstream
- Published
- 2018-08-07T18:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
The pcpuembedfirst_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.
- References
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105049
- https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/CVE-2018-5995.md
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00041.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00042.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00017.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/18