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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-08-31T15:32:57

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:39:07.998Z

Reserved: 2022-07-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-2590

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-08-31T16:15:11.227

Modified: 2023-05-26T19:42:29.323

Link: CVE-2022-2590

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-08-08T14:28:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-2590 - Bugzilla