CVE-2018-14625

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14625

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14625.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.19.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.19.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.19.9-1
debian debiansidfixed4.19.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.19.9-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.