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Researchers discover a vulnerability in the DIRTY COW original patch
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2016-5195 | Dirty COW Race Condition Enables Local Privilege Escalation in the Linux Kernel | 7.0 | 84% | KEVPoC ×5 | KEV |
| CVE-2017-1000405 | The Linux Kernel versions 2.6.38 through 4.14 have a problematic use of pmd_mkdirty() in the touch_pmd() function inside the THP implementation | 7.0 | 3% | PoC ×2 |
From the original article
2 min read at securityaffairs.comResearchers discovered that the original patch for the Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) is affected by a security flaw. The original patch for the Dirty COW vulnerability ( CVE-2016-5195 ) is affected by a security flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to run local code on affected systems and exploit a race condition to perform a privilege escalation attack.
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