CVE-2016-5195 in Communications

Summary

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."

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• Reservation: 05/31/2016
• Disclosure: 11/09/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-121574 (3)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-362 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 7.4
• EPSS: 0.94176
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5195
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5195
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-5195/