CVE-2018-17182

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Sep 19, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

Related CVEs from 2018

CVE-2018-171837.8Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafte CVE-2018-171845.4A malicious user with enough administration entitlements can inject html-like elements containing JavaScript statements into Connector names CVE-2018-171867.2An administrator with workflow definition entitlements can use DTD to perform malicious operations, including but not limited to file read, CVE-2018-171877.4The Apache Qpid Proton-J transport includes an optional wrapper layer to perform TLS, enabled by use of the 'transport.ssl(...)' methods. Un CVE-2018-171887.2Prior to CouchDB version 2.3.0, CouchDB allowed for runtime-configuration of key components of the database. In some cases, this lead to vul CVE-2018-171895.3In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that re CVE-2018-17195.9IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 could provide weaker than expected security under certain conditions. This could result in a do CVE-2018-171909.8In all versions of Apache Spark, its standalone resource manager accepts code to execute on a 'master' host, that then runs that code on 'wo CVE-2018-171919.8Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 NetBeans Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) interpretation is vulnerable for remote command execution (RCE). Us CVE-2018-171926.5The X-Frame-Options headers were applied inconsistently on some HTTP responses, resulting in duplicate or missing security headers. Some bro CVE-2018-171936.1The message-page.jsp error page used the value of the HTTP request header X-ProxyContextPath without sanitization, resulting in a reflected CVE-2018-171947.5When a client request to a cluster node was replicated to other nodes in the cluster for verification, the Content-Length was forwarded. On