A particular case of memory sharing is mishandled in the virtual memory system. This is very similar to SA-21:08.vm, but with a different root cause. An unprivileged local user process can maintain a mapping of a page after it is freed, allowing that process to read private data belonging to other processes or the kernel.
This Cyber News was published on www.tenable.com. Publication date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:41:03 +0000