CVE-2018-14625: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: affected versions not specified

Published 2018-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.