Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in kernel memory subsystem
Details: mm/memory.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.4 mishandles anonymous pages, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (page tainting) via a crafted application that triggers writing to page zero. [NIST-CVE-2015-3288]
Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in kernel memory subsystem
Details: Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of the mmap and bpf system calls. [NIST-CVE-2016-4794]
Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in kernel memory subsystem
Details: Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 2.x through 4.x before 4.8.3 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect handling of a copy-on-write (COW) feature to write to a read-only memory mapping, as exploited in the wild in October 2016, aka "Dirty COW." [NIST-CVE-2016-5195]
