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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5195

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5195 PUBLISHED CVSS 7 HIGH

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."

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11linux0, 0, 0
Debian:13linux0, 0, 0
Debian:14linux0, 0, 0
Debian:12linux0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Nov 10, 2016 CVE Published
  • Jan 8, 2020 PoC Published
  • Jul 22, 2023 PoC Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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