Security Advisory

CVE-2018-17182

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-09-19 09:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 10:39:59

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.18.8. The vmacache_flush_all function in mm/vmacache.c mishandles sequence number overflows. An attacker can trigger a use-after-free (and possibly gain privileges) via certain thread creation, map, unmap, invalidation, and dereference operations.

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