VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. 

Advisory: CVE-2018-1118
  Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2018-1118
  CVSS severity score: 2.1/10.0
  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.



This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
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