CVE-2022-2590 Information

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.

Reference

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220808073232.8808-1-david@redhat.com/ https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/08/1