Description


A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data.

References


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025726

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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/25/1

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025726

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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/25/1

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Weaknesses



CWE-459


CWE-401

CVSS impact metrics


CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

4.4 · Medium

Information


Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Modified

Published

2022-03-03T21:15:08.527Z

4 years ago

Last modified

2024-11-21T05:36:42.333Z

1 year ago