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CVE-2016-5195: Dirty COW Privilege Escalation

August 11, 2026

CVE-2016-5195, known as Dirty COW, is a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability that allows local users to gain write access to read-only memory mappings. It was exploited in the wild and is referenced in the Kimwolf v7 analysis.