CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17182
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
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.
Affected configurations
• 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 (>= 4.5 < 4.9.128)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.71)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.18.9)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• netapp active iq performance analytics services
• netapp element software
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105417 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106503 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041748 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3656 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0001/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45497/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/18/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105417 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106503 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041748 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3656 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0001/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3777-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45497/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/18/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory