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Huge Dirty CoW Vulnerability : CVE-2017–1000405

Posted by Deepak Shanker on November 30, 2017January 30, 2018

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”

Dirty COW – CVE-2016-5195

Posted by Deepak Shanker on October 24, 2016November 17, 2016

Introduction: A privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux Kernel has been discovered by Phil Pester. The bug has been in existence since version 2.6.22 which was released in 2007 and has been fixed on Oct 18 2016. The bug allows an unprivileged authenticated local user to gain write access to read only memory mappings. A number … Continue reading “Dirty COW – CVE-2016-5195”