The 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).
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Published : 2018-06-05 13:29
Updated : 2024-11-21 03:39
NVD link : CVE-2018-1000200
Mitre link : CVE-2018-1000200
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-1000200
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference