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CVE-2018-14625

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Linux kernel: all versions

References

• 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/

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