Linux Stale TLB Use-After-Free

Linux stable versions 5.4 and 5.10 suffer from a page use-after-free condition via a stale TLB entry caused by rmap lock not being held during PUD move...

kernel: TLB flush happens too late on mremap

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU)

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle inconsistency between, virtual to physical memory address translations in CPU's local cache and system software's Paging structure entries. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to induce a hardware Machine Check Error on the host processor,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15588

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS because of a race condition that can cause a stale TLB entry...