CVE-2018-14656 (NVD)

2018-10-08

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.

Products Linux_kernel
Type Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Patches https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342db04ae71273322f0011384a9ed414df8bdae4
Links • https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/9
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180828154901.112726-1-jannh%40google.com/T/
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041804
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14656
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1650