CWE Code: 362
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Summary: 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."
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2016-11-10
Last Modified Date: 2019-04-22