| Vulnerability Status: Final | Source: Third Party / OSS | Initial Publication Date: 2016-11-10 | Last Updated: 2026-05-27 13:40:24 |
Summary:
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."
CVE#: CVE-2016-5195
Vulnerability score (v3): 7
Vector (v3): 3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity (v3): 2 - High
Product(s): FlashArray
Version First Fixed: Purity//FA 4.7.7, Purity//FA 4.8.2
References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5195