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CVE-2018-1118
medium
Description
Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() function. This can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3762-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3762-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1118
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096