Arbitrary Kernel Address Dump Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's show_opcodes()

CVE-2018-14656 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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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