A Dirty Cow Container Exploit Persists
By Andson Tung We have seen a lot of reports on how the Linux kernel can be compromised by the Dirty Cow (CVE-2016-5195) exploit. One technique that attackers use is to exploit this kernel bug to overwrite a so-called setuid program in the system. A setuid program allows the user to temporarily elevate the privilege in order to perform a certain …