Security Advisory

CVE-2022-2590

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-08-31 15:32:57
Last updated 2024-08-03 00:39:07
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernels 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.