write-what-where

adj

write-what-where

adj
1

Being or relating to a security vulnerability allowing the attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary location.

Computer security

  • 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:

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