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CVE-2018-14625 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  09/10/2018

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Hyperlink Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14625
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039

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CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-14625
NVD Published Date:
09/10/2018
NVD Last Modified:
09/10/2018