CVE-2016-5195
- Reference to the description:
- 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."
- Last updated date:
- 01/29/2025
Reports
ACTIVELY EXPLOITED
- Type:
- exploitation
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/18/2016
- Reference url to background
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails
- Type:
- exploitation
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 02/17/2020
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploitation
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 03/03/2022
- Reference url to background
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/21/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/21/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/22/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/22/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/22/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/23/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/24/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/29/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/29/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 11/17/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 11/25/2016
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 01/16/2017
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 01/20/2017
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 03/18/2017
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 05/27/2018
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 08/13/2019
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/22/2019
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 06/26/2020
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 10/06/2021
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 03/07/2022
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 03/07/2022
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 06/28/2022
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 02/08/2023
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139277/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0012-1.html
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139286/DirtyCow-Linux-Kernel-Race-Condition.html
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139287/DirtyCow-Local-Root-Proof-Of-Concept.html
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 07/24/2024
- Reference url to background