CVE-2016-5195

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5195
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5195.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5195
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-11-10T21:59:00.197Z
Modified
2026-04-01T23:48:12.093439Z
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
[none]
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."

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1c163f4c7b3f621efff9b28a47abb36f7378d783
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
4fe89d07dcc2804c8b562f6c7896a45643d34b2f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c9c3395d5e3dcc6daee66c6908354d47bf98cb0c
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
6995e2de6891c724bfeb2db33d7b87775f913ad1
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ffc253263a1375a65fa6c9f62a893e9767fbebfa
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
0dd3ee31125508cd67f7e7172247f05b7fd1753a
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7111951b8d4973bda27ff663f2cf18b663d15b48
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
bbf5c979011a099af5dc76498918ed7df445635b
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c
Fixed
19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619
Database specific 
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Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
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source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5195.json"