Researchers have found that the patch for the original Dirty CoW is incomplete and does not address a condition where a read-only privileged page is marked dirty. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2017-1000405. Similar to Dirty CoW the bug allows an unprivileged authenticated local user to gain write access to read only memory mappings. By … Continue reading “Huge Dirty CoW Vulnerability : CVE-2017–1000405”
