CVE-2016-5195

CVE-2016-5195 (Dirty COW) : A race condition in the Linux kernel’s memory management (mm/gup.c) allows a local user to gain write access to read‑only mappings via a faulty copy‑on‑write handling. Affected: kernel 2.x–4.x prior to 4.8.3. Exploitation was observed in the wild around Oct 2016. Impac...