vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-18221

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 7, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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