CVE-2016-5195 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2016-5195

Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 2.x through...

Vulnerability 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."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ubuntu linux, linux kernel, enterprise linux, enterprise linux aus, enterprise linux eus, enterprise linux long life, enterprise linux tus, debian linux, fedora, pan-os, cloud backup, hci storage nodes, oncommand balance, oncommand performance manager, oncommand unified manager for clustered data ontap, ontap select deploy administration utility, snapprotect, solidfire
Vulnerable Versions:
12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 16.10, 2.6.22, 3.3, 3.5, 3.11, 3.13, 3.17, 3.19, 4.2, 4.5, 4.8, 5, 6.0, 7.0, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1, 5.6, 5.9, 8.0, 23, 24, 25, 5.1, 7.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: November 10th, 2016
Last Modified: November 4th, 2025
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.