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CVE-2022-2590

Published: Aug 31, 2022

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

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Description

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 shared memory mappings. This flaw allows an unprivileged, local user to gain write access to read-only memory mappings, increasing their privileges on the system.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Linux kernel	affected `Linux kernel 5.16 onwards`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/08/1

x_refsource_MISC

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220808073232.8808-1-david%40redhat.com/

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