# 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.

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-09-10 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] kernel: version range not reported

## Description

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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## References

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

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