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CVE-2016-5195

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-o...
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CVE-2016-5195

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-o...

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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CVSS Version

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Base Score
CVSS Version
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References

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Severity

7

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7
EPSS Probability
0.94176%
EPSS Percentile
0.99913%
Introduced Version
0,9d6ac04ae8cd7064c28c93a6a949cb5324899593
Fix Available
19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619,b838363dc3bc8d85f50a9da0bf1f1b90e10d9b13,0:2.6.32-642.6.2.el6,0:3.10.0-327.36.3.el7,0:4.5.0-15.2.1.el7,0:3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7,0:2.6.18-416.el5,3.16.36-1+deb8u2,4.7.8-1,0:0.5.3-2.el7,0:4.1.12-61.1.16.el7uek,0:0.4.5-3.el7,0:3.8.13-118.13.3.el7uek,0:4.4.23-31.54.amzn1

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