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CVE-2018-1000200

kernel: NULL pointer dereference on OOM kill of large mlocked process

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · April 24, 2018

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel where an out of memory (oom) killing of a process that has large spans of mlocked memory can result in deferencing a NULL pointer, leading to denial of service.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference