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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Chrome
Published: 2016-11-10T21:00:00
Updated: 2022-08-15T11:06:10
Reserved: 2016-05-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-5195
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-11-10T21:59:00.197
Modified: 2023-11-07T02:33:23.770
Link: CVE-2016-5195
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