| Release Date: | 2018-09-19 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
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.
See more information about CVE-2018-17182 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score: | 7.8 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | High |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2018-4244 | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2018-4244 | 2018-10-10 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2018-4270 | 2018-11-08 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (kernel-uek) | OVMSA-2018-0266 | 2018-10-10 |
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