VYPR
High severity7.0CISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Nov 10, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5195

CVE-2016-5195

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."

AI Insight

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

Affected products

156

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

126

News mentions

4