Vulnerabilities
Vulnerable Software

Vulnerability Details 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) feature to write to a read-only memory mapping, as exploited in the wild in October 2016, aka "Dirty COW."
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.942
EPSS Ranking 99.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.0
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
Proposed Action
Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to escalate privileges.
Ransomware Campaign
Unknown
References
Products affected by CVE-2016-5195


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