The 2015 Pwnie Nominee For Best Privilege Escalation Bug

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Credit: Mark Seaborn and Thomas Dullien

Mark Seaborn and the little known “Thomas Dullien” bring us memory (DRAM) bit flips after repeated memory access causes electrical charges to cross DRAM cells. Working Linux exploits were produced to gain userland to kernel privs, and other OSes are suspected to work too. Vulnerable machine count and fix plan is still under evaluation.

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