CVE-2016-5195

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5195
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https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5195.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5195
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Published
2016-11-10T21:59:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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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."

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Affected packages