CVE-2022-2590
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.9%
exploitation probability
0.9%top 42% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · Linux kernel