Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-4853108
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed23 Apr 2018
Introduced: 23 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-1118 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1118
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1118
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3762-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3762-2/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573699