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CVE-2022-2590 A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of…

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.

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