CVE-2018-17182

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CVSS v3
7.8
HIGH
CVSS v2
7.2
HIGH
Affected
1
PROJECT

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.

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