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Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 14:35:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2018-1000200 (Linux): Bad memory access on oom kill of large
mlocked process
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, David Rientjes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Out of memory (oom) killing a process that has large spans of mlocked
> memory can result in a bad memory access or a NULL pointer dereference due
> to concurrent memory unmapping by the oom reaper kernel thread.
>
> This affects Linux 4.14, 4.15, and 4.16.
>
The fix for this has been merged into 4.17-rc5 as commit 27ae357fa82b
("mm, oom: fix concurrent munlock and oom reaper unmap, v3"), see
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=27ae357fa82be5ab73b2ef8d39dcb8ca2563483a
Furthermore, it has been staged for inclusion in both the 4.14 and 4.16
stable kernels.
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