Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
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Jo Morris
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over 7 years ago
A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory
subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only
memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain
write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase
their privileges on the system.
Please refer to http://dirtycow.ninja/ for more information and to keep updated on patches as they are released.
Jo Morris
A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
Please refer to http://dirtycow.ninja/ for more information and to keep updated on patches as they are released.