medium5.3
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.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | All versions |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 8.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4154
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14625
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3872-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-2/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4154
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14625
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3872-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-1/