CVE-2016-5195

HIGH7.0

CISA KEV

Published 2016-11-10 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Summary

CVE-2016-5195 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.0) vulnerability in Linux Kernel. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by March 24, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Linux has 32 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 2 of them linked to ransomware.

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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."

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-362CWE-362

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: Linux — Kernel

Name: Linux Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability

Date added: 2022-03-03 · Due: 2022-03-24

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

References

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