NVD

Id
20529  
Name
CVE-2016-5195  
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."  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
7.2  
Severity
High  
CVSS Base Score
7.2  
CVSS Impact Subscore
10  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
3.9  
CVSS Vector
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)  
Pub Date
2017-06-23  
Published
2016-11-10  
Modified Date
2017-06-19  
Seq
2016-5195  

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