Privilege Escalation via Race Condition in Linux Kernel's TLB Handling

CVE-2016-2069 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Race condition in arch/x86/mm/tlb.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to gain privileges by triggering access to a paging structure by a different CPU.

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