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LIN10-4773 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2018-17182

Created: Oct 8, 2018    Updated: Dec 10, 2018
Resolved Date: Oct 15, 2018
Found In Version: 10.17.41.1
Fix Version: 10.17.41.12
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 17
Component/s: Kernel

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.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17182

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