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