Use After Free Affecting kernel-vanilla-base package, versions <4.12.14-25.22.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELVANILLABASE-2759742
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed16 Oct 2018

Introduced: 16 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17182  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 kernel-vanilla-base to version 4.12.14-25.22.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-vanilla-base package and not the kernel-vanilla-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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