5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-18221

Published: 07/03/2018 Updated: 31/05/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 437
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were addressed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were addressed in the Linux kernel ...
The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlockc in the Linux kernel, before 4114, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls ...