CVE-2017-18221
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-03-07 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.5 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2019-4315 | 2019-01-03 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2019-4315 | 2019-01-03 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (kernel-uek) | OVMSA-2019-0002 | 2019-02-04 |
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