PoC Index

CVE-2016-5195

KEVHIGH 7.2EPSS 83.5%

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."

CVSS v3.1
7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3.1
7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
83.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
CISA KEV
added 2022-03-03
Published
2016-11-10
Updated
2025-11-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (93)

ExploitDB entries (5)

Exploit collections (1)

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