CVE-2018-14625

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel where an attacker may be able to have an uncontrolled read to kernel-memory from within a vm guest. A race condition between connect() and close() function may allow an attacker using the AF_VSOCK protocol to gather a 4 byte information leak or possibly intercept or corrupt AF_VSOCK messages destined to other clients.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.0 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-09-10

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-362, CWE-416

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Linux Kernel (Linux)
• Kernel (Unknown)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4154
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14625
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html
• https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3872-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-2/