Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.14.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006327
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-5953  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.14.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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