0.879 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.7%
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.”
git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9691eac5593ff1e2f82391ad327f21d90322aec1
git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e45a502bdeae5a075257c4f061d1ff4ff0821354
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/data-feeds
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
0.879 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.7%