Dirty COW is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel

I like how "Am I affected by the bug?" part checks your user agent string for "Linux" and says "yes" or "no" accordingly.

As if I wasn't reading that page from a phone while running Linux on a server. Then again, the exploit didn't work for me on unpatched 3.4.112 kernel, so it might actually be correct.

this has been posted here 4 times in the last 24h, and there is a better story with more information and discussion on the front page already.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756006

> Dirty COW

For a second that sounded like the group "Cult of the dead cow" and their showpiece trojan "Back Orifice", designed to popularize the insecurity of Windows 98.

Wow, the t-shirt prices are outrageous. That seems like a lot of work to make a joke store.

Bad choice of name; in English English at least, "dirty cow" is a misogynist slur.

This has immature and false information.

Mostly, yes exploits in the wild have been detected in HTTP requests, and as the researcher assumes this exploit could have existed for a very long time.

And it's not a local privilege escalation only as the write up assumes, it was exploited remotely!