Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
Researchers 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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2017
Security experts at Trend Micro have recently spotted a new strain of Android malware, dubbed ZNIU, that exploits the Dirty COW Linux kernel vulnerability. The Dirty COW vulnerability was discovered by the security expert Phil Oester in October 2016, it could be exploited by a local attacker to escalate privileges. The name ‘Dirty COW’ is due to the fact that itâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2016
VMware has patched a critical out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-7461, affecting its Workstation and Fusion products. The flaw, that resides in the affects the drag-and-drop function, can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on the host operating system running Fusion or Workstation. The security vulnerability affects Workstation Player and Pro 12.x, and […]
