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CVE-2018-17182
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-19T09:29:00.620 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:45:29.350

Summary

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 products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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