CVE-2018-14625

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.0/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416 CWE-362

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
[UNKNOWN]	kernel	n/a

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-2018-14625Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3872-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-2/Third Party Advisory
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-2018-14625Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3872-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-2/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Sep 10, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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