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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-09-10T13:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2018-14625

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-02-13T04:51:40.387

Link: CVE-2018-14625

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2018-14625 - Bugzilla