CVE-2017-18221

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p38

Published

Mar 7, 2018 (Mar 7, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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

Vendors: linux
Products: linux kernel
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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