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2016-11-10
Linux Kernel Copy-on-Write Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation (Dirty COW, CVE-2016-5195)
[Affected Scope] All Linux distributions and Android systems running Linux kernel versions 2.x through 4.x before 4.8.3
[Impact] A local attacker can exploit a race condition to write to read-only memory mappings, gaining root privileges on the target system
[Mitigation] Apply the latest kernel security patches provided by your OS vendor and reboot the system