ALAS-2016-757 ---- kernel perfID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1600463 | Date: (C)2016-10-24 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakageA race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel"s memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
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Amazon Linux AMI |