[oss-security] Linux kernel: TLB flush happens too late on mremap (CVE-2018-18281; fixed in 4.9.135, 4.14.78, 4.18.16, 4.19)

[Jann Horn]

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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 CVE-2018-18281.

This is fixed in the following kernel versions:
4.9.135
4.14.78
4.18.16
4.19

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eb66ae030829605d61fbef1909ce310e29f78821
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.135
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://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1695