Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-7273

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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...

CVE-2018-7273

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 showfloppy in drivers/block/floppy.c. An attacker can read this information from dmesg and use the addresses to find the locations of kernel...

CVE-2018-7273

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 showfloppy in drivers/block/floppy.c. An attacker can read this information from dmesg and use the addresses to find the locations of kernel...

CVE-2018-7273

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 showfloppy in drivers/block/floppy.c. An attacker can read this information from dmesg and use the addresses to find the locations of kernel...

CVE-2018-7273

CVE-2018-7273 affects the Linux kernel floppy driver. The show_floppy path in drivers/block/floppy.c prints kernel addresses via printk, enabling local attackers to read addresses from dmesg and locate kernel code/data, potentially bypassing KASLR. The vulnerability is described for Linux kernels...