[UNKNOWN] kernel

CVE-2018-14625
MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.35 % · percentile 28 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-416 — Use After Free
  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
[UNKNOWN] · kernelaffected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD