EPSS
Percentile
98.4%
Added: 10/27/2016
CVE: CVE-2016-5195
BID: 93793
This tool allows you to overwrite an arbitrary file on Linux systems.
A race condition exists in the way the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus gain elevated privileges on the system.
Upgrade to a fixed kernel package from your Linux vendor.
<http://dirtycow.ninja/>
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/master/dirtyc0w.c>
Exploit requires an existing unprivileged connection to the target.
Linux
EPSS
Percentile
98.4%