Vulnerability CVE-2018-18281

Vulnerability CVE-2018-18281

Published: 2018-10-30

Description:

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap() syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate() removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap(), a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical page after it has been released back to the page allocator and reused. This is fixed in the following kernel versions: 4.9.135, 4.14.78, 4.18.16, 4.19.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Low	Linux mremap() TLB Flush Too Late	Jann Horn	30.10.2018

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10	6.4/10	3.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Local	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel
Debian -> Debian linux
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux

References:

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150001/Linux-mremap-TLB-Flush-Too-Late.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/29/5

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105761

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106503

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0831

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1695

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.78

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.16

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.135

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eb66ae030829605d61fbef1909ce310e29f78821

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3832-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3835-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3880-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3880-2/

Vulnerability CVE-2018-18281

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Low

Linux mremap() TLB Flush Too Late

CWE-20

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

4.6/10

6.4/10

3.9/10

Local

Low

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: