CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18221
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.11.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=70feee0e1ef331b22cc51f383d532a0d043fbdcc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103321 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/70feee0e1ef331b22cc51f383d532a0d043fbdcc Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=70feee0e1ef331b22cc51f383d532a0d043fbdcc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103321 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/70feee0e1ef331b22cc51f383d532a0d043fbdcc Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.11.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory