Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's __munlock_pagevec Function

CVE-2017-18221 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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