CVE-2018-1000200

Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000200
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-05 13:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-31 10:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Linux Kernel versions 4.14, 4.15, and 4.16 has a null pointer dereference which can result in an out of memory (OOM) killing of large mlocked processes. The issue arises from an oom killed process's final thread calling exit_mmap(), which calls munlock_vma_pages_all() for mlocked vmas.This can happen synchronously with the oom reaper's unmap_page_range() since the vma's VM_LOCKED bit is cleared before munlocking (to determine if any other vmas share the memory and are mlocked).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 4.14 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 4.15 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 4.16 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 4.14 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 4.15 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 4.16 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3752-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
'[patch] mm, oom: fix concurrent munlock and oom reaper unmap' - MARC MLIST marc.info Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
'[patch v3 for-4.17] mm, oom: fix concurrent munlock and oom reaper unmap' - MARC MLIST marc.info Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2018-1000200 - Red Hat Customer Portal CONFIRM access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
USN-3752-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
oss-sec: CVE-2018-1000200 (Linux): Bad memory access on oom kill of large mlocked process MLIST seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Linux Kernel CVE-2018-1000200 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
USN-3752-3: Linux kernel (Azure, GCP, OEM) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree CONFIRM git.kernel.org Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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