vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks PAN-SA-2017-0003 (CVE-2016-5195): Kernel Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 10, 2016
Added
Feb 22, 2017
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

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."

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