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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-17182

CVE-2018-17182

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.

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