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Dirty COW

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 4 stories, 8 comments · first 2016-10-20 · latest 2018-04-04

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  1. This is satire, yes? The footer links to https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io , which is a real vulnerability. Further, this is the proof-of-concept from https://holeybeep.ninja/am_i_vulnerable.sh : #!/bin/sh # TODO: Backdoor…
    comment by 333c · 2018-04-04 · in CVE-2018-0492: Local privilege escalation in Linux program that plays a beep
  2. …time. If I remember correctly the PoC demonstrated writing on root-owned files. Might be relevant. https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/Vulnerab...
    comment by language · 2017-09-12 · in Blueborne – A new attack vector endangering major operating systems
  3. Isn't all versions of Android are now rootable with Dirty COW? https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_COW
    comment by tonyplee · 2016-11-07 · in Freeing my tablet: Android hacking, software and hardware
  4. …to anywhere important on the device? What are these different "methods" listed in the table here? https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/PoCs Can one of those methods allow me to write to some file in /etc? (Which is enough to…
    comment by daveloyall · 2016-10-27 · in Show HN: Android 'root' phones via dirtyc0w exploit
  5. …All of the PoCs here use ptrace() or /proc/self/mem. Why would they do that if they didn't need to? https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/PoCs
    comment by kentonv · 2016-10-22 · in “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit
  6. …just disable this by default on production systems (where you shouldn't be debugging anyhow)? [0] https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/Vulnerab...
    comment by frederikvs · 2016-10-21 · in “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit
  7. https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/Vulnerab... and scroll up a bit. If you have an iPhone you can scroll horizontally even if it doesn't look like you can (though I am also annoyed by HN truncating the text)
    comment by 0942v8653 · 2016-10-21 · in “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is under active exploit
  8. Please direct any questions to the vulnerability twitter account: http://twitter.com/DirtyCOWVuln Or https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io Please consider buying a t-shirt to support this.
    comment by Daviey · 2016-10-20 · in Dirty cow – privilege escalation vuln. in the Linux Kernel