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-only memory mapping, as exploited in the wild in October 2016, aka "Dirty COW."
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.0 High
- Status
- Analyzed - chrome-cve-admin@google.com
- Published
- 2016-11-10
- Last modified
- 2025-11-04
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- since 2022-03-03, action due 2022-03-24: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Affected products
- Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Fedora (Fedoraproject)
- Linux Kernel (Linux)
- Cloud Backup (Netapp)
- Hci Storage Nodes (Netapp)
- Oncommand Balance (Netapp)
- Oncommand Performance Manager (Netapp)
- Oncommand Unified Manager For Clustered Data Ontap (Netapp)
- Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility (Netapp)
- Snapprotect (Netapp)
- Solidfire (Netapp)
- Pan-os (Paloaltonetworks)
- Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Aus (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Eus (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Long Life (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Tus (Redhat)
References
- http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-063
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10770
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10774
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10807
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00034.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00038.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00045.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00048.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00049.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00050.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00051.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00052.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00053.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00055.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00056.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00057.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00058.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00063.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00065.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00066.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00067.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00033.html
