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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-1118: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 10, 2018
Added
Feb 19, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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