GHSA-j68w-7qm9-fjqq
GitHub Security Advisory
⚠ Unreviewed
HIGH
Has CVE
Advisory Details
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."
Related CVEs
Key Information
7.5
/10
Dataset
Last updated: September 19, 2025 6:29 AM
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