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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-18281) (Multiple Advisories): Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-18281) (Multiple Advisories): Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/30/2018
Created
08/15/2019
Added
08/15/2019
Modified
11/23/2022

Description

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap() syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate() removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap(), a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical page after it has been released back to the page allocator and reused. This is fixed in the following kernel versions: 4.9.135, 4.14.78, 4.18.16, 4.19.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-dtrace-modules
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek-debug
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek-debug-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek-firmware

References

  • ELSA-2020-5706
  • USN-3832-1
  • USN-3835-1
  • USN-3871-1
  • USN-3871-2
  • USN-3871-3
  • USN-3871-4
  • USN-3871-5
  • USN-3880-1
  • USN-3880-2
  • CVE-2018-18281
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