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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Information
Published : 2016-11-10 13:59
Updated : 2023-01-17 13:00
NVD link : CVE-2016-5195
Mitre link : CVE-2016-5195
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CWE
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux_aus
- enterprise_linux
- enterprise_linux_long_life
- enterprise_linux_tus
- enterprise_linux_eus
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
linux
- linux_kernel
debian
- debian_linux