VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-5195

CVSS score7 HIGH
EPSS probability83.52%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2016-11-10
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Known Exploited Vulnerability

Linux Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Linux / Kernel

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."

Weakness classification

  • CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Primary references