CVE-2018-14656

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by a missing address check in the callers of the show opcodes() function in the Linux kernel, allowing an attacker to dump kernel memory at an arbitrary kernel address into the dmesg log. This is also described as a vulnerability in the show opcodes() function due to input validation errors, which can be exploited to access protected kernel information.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.