Bug 1631205 (CVE-2018-17182)

Summary:	CVE-2018-17182 kernel: Use-after-free in the vmacache_flush_all function resulting in a possible privilege escalation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abhgupta, airlied, aquini, bhu, blc, bskeggs, dbaker, dhoward, ewk, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jkacur, john.j5live, jokerman, jonathan, josef, jross, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, mpoole, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, sardella, steved, sthangav, trankin, vdronov, williams, yozone
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A security flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel. 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.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1631206, 1631295, 1631296, 1631297
Bug Blocks:	1631208

Description Andrej Nemec 2018-09-20 08:26:54 UTC

A security flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel. 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.

References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/251

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7a9cdebdcc17e426fb5287e4a82db1dfe86339b2

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-09-20 08:28:21 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1631206]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-26 23:14:36 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3656 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3656