on Oct 27, 2016Article Content
| Article Number | 000034269 |
| Applies To | RSA Product Set: SecurID RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager RSA Version/Condition: 8.x |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-5195 |
| Article Summary | 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 memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system. |
| Link to Advisories | https://dirtycow.ninja/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5195.html https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5195 |
| Alert Impact | Not Exploitable |
| Technical Details | The flaw exists but it is not exploitable |
| Technical Details Explanation | Response: The flaw exists but does not add an additional security risk. The RSA Authentication Manager 8.x appliance does not have unprivileged local users. Only one user, the appliance administrator (rsaadmin), can log into the appliance and this user is already fully capable of gaining root privileges. |
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