CVE-2016-5195
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."
Attention and evidence
Evidence confidence: Exploitation recorded
Hype components
Sources and documents
Score evolution
● Hype ● Reality
Earlier evidence-support scores are retained in history; this chart shows only the current priority definition.
First record: hype 0.0 · reality 8.5 (2026-11-02 15:12). The curve appears once the score changes.
Public exploit evidence
Public exploit entries / repo candidates
Evidence context and dated references
Reality is general threat/review priority, combining observed exploitation, CVSS severity and fresh EPSS. Evidence confidence is separate. This is not calibrated risk, a victim count or an asset-specific assessment. A range reflects missing numeric inputs.
Evidence in context
- Confidence in exploitation evidence
- Exploitation recorded
- Priority basis
- Recorded exploitation; CVSS 7; EPSS 83.5%
- Attention, last 30 days
- 0 distinct story titles; 0 press documents; 0 publisher domains.
- Technical potential
- local access, low privileges, no user interaction, additional attack conditions.
- Observed activity
- Exploitation recorded in CISA KEV.
- Known scale
- Not quantified.
- Evidence confidence basis
- Trusted exploitation confirmation
Score evaluated: 2026-11-05 13:57:45.780366+00:00 · EPSS snapshot: 2026-11-05T12:03:04Z