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write-what-where

write-what-where adjective: being or relating to a security vulnerability allowing the attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary location.

Adjective

write-what-where (not comparable)

  1. (computer security) Being or relating to a security vulnerability allowing the attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary location.
    • Arbitrary memory overwrite, also known as the "write-what-where" vulnerability, is the most common vulnerability affecting Windows kernel drivers. This kind of vulnerability is mainly due to failure or incorrect use of the user-land validation kernel APIs.2010, Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core, page 308
    • A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory2021, Arti Noor, Abhijit Sen, Gaurav Trivedi, Proceedings of Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems: ETTIS 2021, page 26

Questions about write-what-where

What does write-what-where mean?
Write-what-where means being or relating to a security vulnerability allowing the attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary location.
What part of speech is write-what-where?
Write-what-where is an adjective.

Words near write-what-where in the dictionary

  1. write-only memory
  2. write-through
  3. write-throughs
  4. write-up
  5. write-ups
  6. write-what-where
  7. writeability
  8. writeable
  9. writeback
  10. writebacks
  11. writebehind

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