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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1771-1 linux-4.9 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-6531 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3871-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3871-3 Linux kernel (AWS, GCP, KVM, OEM, Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3871-4 Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3871-5 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3872-1 Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3878-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3878-2 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T09:29:51.690Z

Reserved: 2018-07-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-14625

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-10T13:29:00.277

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:49:27.037

Link: CVE-2018-14625

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-07-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-14625 - Bugzilla

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