Security Advisory
CVE-2016-5195
7
HIGH
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."
Published Date
November 10, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory