Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.18.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.62% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005382
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.18.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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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