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CVE-2018-5953

Date: August 7, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105045

Url: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7d63fb3af87aa67aa7d24466e792f9d7c57d8e79

Url: https://github.com/johnsonwangqize/cve-linux/blob/master/%20CVE-2018-5953.md

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-5953

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5953

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-5953

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Information Leak / Disclosure

CWE-200

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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