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 21:59
Updated : 2024-07-24 14:27
NVD link : CVE-2016-5195
Mitre link : CVE-2016-5195
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-5195
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Products Affected
netapp
- cloud_backup
- oncommand_balance
- solidfire
- hci_storage_nodes
- oncommand_performance_manager
- oncommand_unified_manager_for_clustered_data_ontap
- ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility
- snapprotect
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
fedoraproject
- fedora
redhat
- enterprise_linux_aus
- enterprise_linux_eus
- enterprise_linux
- enterprise_linux_tus
- enterprise_linux_long_life
linux
- linux_kernel
debian
- debian_linux
paloaltonetworks
- pan-os
CWE
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')