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.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
References
History
No history.

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T10:39:59.702Z
Reserved: 2018-09-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-17182

No data.

Status : Modified
Published: 2018-09-19T09:29:00.620
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:54:02.213
Link: CVE-2018-17182
