CVE-2017-18208

Published March 1st, 2018

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.9

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The madvise_willneed function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

GitHub

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