Dirty Pipe

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2022
8-year-old Linux Kernel flaw DirtyCred is nasty as Dirty Pipe

Researchers shared details of an eight-year-old flaw dubbed DirtyCred, defined as nasty as Dirty Pipe, in the Linux kernel. Researchers from Northwestern University (Zhenpeng Lin  |  PhD Student,Yuhang Wu  |  PhD Student, Xinyu Xing  |  Associate Professor) disclosed an eight-year-old security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, dubbed DirtyCred, which they defined “as nasty as Dirty Pipe.” The Dirty Pipe flaw, tracked […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2022
Dirty Pipe Linux flaw impacts most QNAP NAS devices

Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns most of its NAS devices are impacted by high severity Linux vulnerability dubbed ‘Dirty Pipe.’ Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP warns most of its Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are impacted by the recently discovered Linux vulnerability ‘Dirty Pipe.’ An attacker with local access can exploit the high-severity vulnerability Dirty Pipe to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2022
Dirty Pipe Linux flaw allows gaining root privileges on major distros

Dirty Pipe is a Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0847, that can allow local users to gain root privileges on all major distros. Security expert Max Kellermann discovered a Linux flaw, dubbed Dirty Pipe and tracked as CVE-2022-0847, that can allow local users to gain root privileges on all major distros. The vulnerability affects Linux Kernel […]