CVE-2016-5195

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) featu…

Published: 2016-11-10 · CVSS: 7.0 · CVSS 3.1

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."

Original CVE JSON · STIX 2.1

Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7