CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-2590
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only shared memory mappings. This flaw allows an unprivileged, local user to gain write access to read-only memory mappings, increasing their privileges on the system.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220808073232.8808-1-david%40redhat.com/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/08/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220808073232.8808-1-david%40redhat.com/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/08/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory