CVE-2016-5195

HIGH

CVSS Score

Published: November 10, 2016 at 09:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:48 AM UTC

18 products affected across 7 vendorsLinux KernelDebian LinuxFedora

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Severity

HIGH7

Exploitation

CISA KEV

Exploit prediction

EPSS 84%

SSVC

Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score83.5%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 83.5% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 100% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to escalate privileges.

Required Action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Ransomware Use

Unknown

Added to KEV

Mar 3, 2022

Remediation Due

Mar 24, 2022

1677 days overdue

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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."

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

12.04 14.04 16.04 16.10

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

7.0 8.0

Fedora · Fedora Projectrpm

95%

23 24 25

Linux Kernel · Linux

95%

2.6.22 ≤ v < 3.2.833.11 ≤ v < 3.12.663.13 ≤ v < 3.16.383.17 ≤ v < 3.18.443.19 ≤ v < 4.1.353.3 ≤ v < 3.4.1133.5 ≤ v < 3.10.1044.2 ≤ v < 4.4.264.5 ≤ v < 4.7.94.8 ≤ v < 4.8.3

Affected range stops below 3.10.104, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 3.12.66, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 3.16.38, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 3.18.44, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 3.2.83, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 3.4.113, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 4.1.35, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 4.4.26, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 4.7.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 4.8.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Cloud Backup · NetAppdrupal

95%

All versions

Hci Storage Nodes · NetApp

95%

All versions

Oncommand Balance · NetApp

95%

All versions

Oncommand Performance Manager · NetApp

95%

All versions

Oncommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data Ontap · NetApp

95%

All versions

ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility · NetApp

95%

All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (128)

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-16-063

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10770

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10774

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10807

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing List

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00034.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing List

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00035.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing List

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00036.html

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7HIGHCISA-ADP

Attack Vector: LOCAL
Complexity: HIGH
Privileges: LOW
User Interaction: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: HIGH
Integrity: HIGH
Availability: HIGH

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED

CWE

CWE-362

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