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CVE-2018-5995

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 4.14.14

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105049
• https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/CVE-2018-5995.md
• 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
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4497
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105049
• https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/CVE-2018-5995.md
• 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

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