CVE-2018-17182

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17182
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17182.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17182
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-09-19T09:29:00.620Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:07:42.815347Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.18.8. The vmacacheflushall 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.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.16"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "3.16.58"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "3.17"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "3.18.123"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "3.19"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "4.4.157"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.5"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "4.9.128"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.10"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "4.14.71"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "4.15"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "4.18.9"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "4.18.8"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2
Database specific
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17182.json"

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17182.json"