vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-5995): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 7, 2018
Added
Mar 23, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

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