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CVE-2018-14625

CVSS v3.0 7 (High)
70% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.4 (Medium)
44% Progress
EPSS 0.06 % (28th)
0.06% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 19
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CWE-416
Use After Free
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2018-09-10 13:29:00
(6 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-02-13 04:51:40
(19 months ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0