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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2018-17182
HistorySep 19, 2018 - 9:29 a.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2018-09-1909:29:00
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9

7.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

44.4%

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.