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CVE-2018-14625
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-10T13:29:00.277 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:41:19.053

Summary

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

linux — linux_kernel

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