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ghsa-2mhv-543f-h64j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-09-01 00:00

Modified

2022-09-09 00:01

Severity ?

7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only shared memory mappings. This flaw allows an unprivileged, local user to gain write access to read-only memory mappings, increasing their privileges on the system.

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CVE-2022-2590 (GCVE-0-2022-2590)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-08-31 15:32

Modified

2024-08-03 00:39

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-362

Summary

A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only shared memory mappings. This flaw allows an unprivileged, local user to gain write access to read-only memory mappings, increasing their privileges on the system.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/08/1	x_refsource_MISC
	https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220808073232.8808-1-david%40redhat.com/	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	Linux kernel	Version: Linux kernel 5.16 onwards

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