USN-5206-1
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linux-oem-5.14 vulnerability
Nadav Amit discovered that the hugetlb implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform TLB flushes under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to leak or alter data from other processes that use huge pages.
Exploit probability
Not scored
Published
January 5, 2022
Required by
Not available
Last source change
June 3, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
6 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
USN-5206-1
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Nadav Amit discovered that the hugetlb implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform TLB flushes under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to leak or alter data from other processes that use huge pages.
05 / REFERENCES