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SUSE: CVE-2017-18221: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 7, 2018
Added
Mar 29, 2018
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

Description

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.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-ec2suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-develsuse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
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