ghsa-j68w-7qm9-fjqq
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:03
Modified
2024-07-24 15:31
Details

Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 2.x through 4.x before 4.8.3 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect handling of a copy-on-write (COW) feature to write to a read-only memory mapping, as exploited in the wild in October 2016, aka "Dirty COW."

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   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2016-5195",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-362",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2016-11-10T21:59:00Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 2.x through 4.x before 4.8.3 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect handling of a copy-on-write (COW) feature to write to a read-only memory mapping, as exploited in the wild in October 2016, aka \"Dirty COW.\"",
   id: "GHSA-j68w-7qm9-fjqq",
   modified: "2024-07-24T15:31:25Z",
   published: "2022-05-13T01:03:08Z",
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