Vulnerability CVE-2018-7273


Published: 2018-02-20   Modified: 2018-02-21

Description:
In the Linux kernel through 4.15.4, the floppy driver reveals the addresses of kernel functions and global variables using printk calls within the function show_floppy in drivers/block/floppy.c. An attacker can read this information from dmesg and use the addresses to find the locations of kernel code and data and bypass kernel security protections such as KASLR.

Type:

CWE-200

(Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
None
None
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103088
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/20/669
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44325/

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