| Name | CVE-2018-14625 |
| 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 | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1771-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.19.289-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.178-3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.191-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.38-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.52-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.4.13-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.5.3-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | stretch | 4.9.161-1 | | | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | 4.19.9-1 | | | |
| linux-4.9 | source | jessie | 4.9.168-1~deb8u1 | | DLA-1771-1 | |
Notes
[jessie] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bd391451452fb0b93039