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Privesc With DirtyCow Exploitation

· 2 min read
Ryan Achmad
soc & sysadmin

DirtyCOW Privilege Escalation (CVE-2016-5195)

DirtyCOW is a privilege escalation vulnerability found in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 < 3.9. This vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to overwrite files that should only be accessible by root