SUSE: CVE-2016-5195: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
10/21/2016
07/25/2018
10/21/2016
07/26/2024
Description
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."
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
- suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-default
- suse-upgrade-cri-o
- suse-upgrade-cri-o-kubeadm-criconfig
- suse-upgrade-cri-tools
- suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
- suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
- suse-upgrade-go1-14
- suse-upgrade-go1-14-doc
- suse-upgrade-go1-14-race
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
- suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
- suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
- suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
- suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-apiserver
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-client
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-controller-manager
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-kubeadm
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-kubelet-common
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-kubelet1-17
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-kubelet1-18
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-master
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-node
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-proxy
- suse-upgrade-kubernetes-scheduler
- suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default
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