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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

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. A race condition between connect() and clos

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
redhat

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

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[UNKNOWN] kernel

  • n/aaffected

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