vulnerability
Cisco NX-OS: Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Affecting Cisco Products: October 2016 (CVE-2016-5195)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Oct 26, 2016 | Jan 5, 2017 | Apr 7, 2022 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 26, 2016
Added
Jan 5, 2017
Modified
Apr 7, 2022
Description
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."
Solution
update-nxos
References
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