Bug 1629940 (CVE-2018-14656) - CVE-2018-14656 kernel: Arbitrary Kernel Read into dmesg via Missing Address Check in segfault Handler
Summary: CVE-2018-14656 kernel: Arbitrary Kernel Read into dmesg via Missing Address C...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-14656
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1629941 1629942 1632820 1635876
Blocks: 1629943
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Reported: 2018-09-17 16:21 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2023-09-20 14:20 UTC (History)
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A missing address check in the callers of the show_opcodes() in the Linux kernel allows an attacker to dump the kernel memory at an arbitrary kernel address into the dmesg log.
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Last Closed: 2019-08-08 13:18:28 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 16:21:46 UTC 
A missing address check in the callers of the show_opcodes() in the Linux kernel allows an attacker to dump the kernel memory at an arbitrary kernel address into the dmesg log.

References:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1650

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180828154901.112726-1-jannh@google.com/T/

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/9

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342db04ae71273322f0011384a9ed414df8bdae4
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 16:23:49 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629942]
Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2018-09-17 19:09:44 UTC 
This is fixed for Fedora with the 4.18.6 stable updates.
Comment 11 Petr Matousek 2018-10-09 10:30:25 UTC 
External References:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1650
Comment 13 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-08 13:18:28 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-14656
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