A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's 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.

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.