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CVE-2017-18221 (GCVE-0-2017-18221)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-07 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:13
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Summary
The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-03-07 00:00
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