CVE-2018-5953

The swiotlb_print_info function in lib/swiotlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.14 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg data from a "software IO TLB" printk call.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-08-07

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105045
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7d63fb3af87aa67aa7d24466e792f9d7c57d8e79
• https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/%20CVE-2018-5953.md
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html