CVE-2021-4002

Publication date

2022-03-03 21:42:47

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernels 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.