CVEPublished 2016-11-101 article on news7 live referencesNVD data

CVE-2016-5195

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CISA KEVKnown exploited in the wild.
CISA action: Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to escalate privileges.
CVSS v3.1
7.0
HIGH
EPSS percentile
100
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 0% of all CVEs
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."

Timeline
Published 2016-11-10

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