Vulnerability CVE-2018-14625


Published: 2018-09-10

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.

Type:

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
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/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3878-2/

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