CVE-2018-14656

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

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 products

Linux kernel: through 4.18; 4.19-rc1

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041804
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1650
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14656
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342db04ae71273322f0011384a9ed414df8bdae4
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180828154901.112726-1-jannh%40google.com/T/
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/9
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041804
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1650
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14656
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342db04ae71273322f0011384a9ed414df8bdae4
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180828154901.112726-1-jannh%40google.com/T/
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/9

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