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CVE-2016-5195
CWE-362
High
86.9
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
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."
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.0
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 83.52%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Mar 2022
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Published
- 10 Nov 2016
- Last modified 21 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time