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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5208-1

Posted Jan 6, 2022

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 5208-1 - 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. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the overlay file system implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2021-20321, CVE-2021-3760, CVE-2021-4002, CVE-2021-41864, CVE-2021-43056, CVE-2021-43267, CVE-2021-43389

SHA-256 | ea7e5bc5b3961bfb7b88bcc657765481b669c52e08a5c1ef062c1477afed2dba

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