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Dirty COW (Copy-On-Write) is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to gain write access to read-only memory, letting them escalate privileges and modify files they shouldn’t be able to. |
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Dirty COW (Copy-On-Write) is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to gain write access to read-only memory, letting them escalate privileges and modify files they shouldn’t be able to.