CVE-2017-18208
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-01 05:00
Modified
2024-08-05 21:13
Severity ?
Summary
The madvise_willneed function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6ea8d958a2c95a1d514015d4e29ba21a8c0a1a91Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3967
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4057
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4058
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ea8d958a2c95a1d514015d4e29ba21a8c0a1a91Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3653-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3653-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3657-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.4Vendor Advisory
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