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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5195
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...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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."
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
linux
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.7.8-1"}]}]
Debian:13
linux
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.7.8-1"}]}]
Debian:14
linux
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.7.8-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org