Critical kernel privesc vulnerability CVE-2016-5195
Originally created by @cypherpunks on #11885 (Redmine)
Severe vulnerability in Linux’s COW handling allows any process to gain root access, and subsequently kernelmode access. It’s a low-level logic bugs, and no mitigations out there fix the underlying vulnerability. The only fix is to upgrade the kernel and release a new version of Tails.
Feature Branch: bugfix/11885-linux-4.7