dirtyc0w

Considering the number of boxes I've encountered that have used this, I've actually documented this.

# affects all versions since 2.6.22
# the vulnerability has been patched in kernel versions 4.8.3, 4.7.9, 4.4.26 and newer.

  1. /etc/passwd based

    1. Firefart: FireFart/dirtycow/dirty.c

    2. CPP: gbonacini/CVE-2016-5195

  2. SUID-based root

    1. cowroot.c: rverton/e9d4ff65d703a9084e85fa9df083c679

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