Tracker / CVE-2018-17182
CVE-2018-17182
High 7.8
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.16 → 3.16.58 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.123 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.4.157 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.71 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.18.9 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.128 |
| netapp | active_iq_performance_analytics_services |
| netapp | element_software |
Analysis
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