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CVE-2018-1118

kernel / vhost PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() function. This can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
kernel / vhostaffected since 4.8

CWE

CWE-665

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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