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CVE-2018-5750

• 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: 2018-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The acpi_smbus_hc_add function in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.15 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg data from an SBS HC printk call.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Linux kernel: through 4.14.15
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• RedHat Virtualization Host: 4.0

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040319
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
• https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10174835/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3631-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3631-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-2/

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