vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-5195: Important: kernel security update ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 1, 2016
Added
Nov 1, 2016
Modified
Jul 26, 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."

Solutions

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