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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-06-05T13:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:40:46.712Z

Reserved: 2018-04-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-1000200

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-05T13:29:00.297

Modified: 2018-10-31T10:30:41.480

Link: CVE-2018-1000200

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-1000200 - Bugzilla