Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel View Exploit Details What is the CVE-2016-5195? CVE-2016-5195 is the official reference to this bug. CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is the Standard for Information Security Vulnerability Names maintained by MITRE. Why is it called the Dirty COW bug? "A race condition was found in the way the Linux ker