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HistoryNov 10, 2016 - 9:00 p.m.

CVE-2016-5195

2016-11-1021:00:00
Chrome
www.cve.org
7

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.817

Percentile

98.4%

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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