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Tracker / CVE-2018-18281

CVE-2018-18281

High 7.8

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap() syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate() removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap(), a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical page after it has been released back to the page allocator and reused. This is fixed in the following kernel versions: 4.9.135, 4.14.78, 4.18.16, 4.19.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 3.2 → 4.9.135
linux linux_kernel · 4.14.79 → 4.18.16
linux linux_kernel · 4.18.17 → 4.19
linux linux_kernel · 4.9.136 → 4.14.78

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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