Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Sep 10, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-14625
CVE-2018-14625
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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Affected products
97- osv-coords96 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Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
13- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- syzkaller.appspot.com/bugnvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3872-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3878-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3878-2/nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4154nvd
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