Dirty COW
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel known for its catchy name and potential damages.
Dirty COW
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel known for its catchy name and potential damages.
Dirty COW Description
Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel discovered by researcher Phil Oester, allowing an attacker to modify memory mapped files even if not permitted, through a race condition between write(2) and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) calls.
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Dirty COW is A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel known for its catchy name and potential damages.. It is a Security Operations solution designed to help security teams with Linux, Vulnerability, Privilege Escalation.
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