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write-what-where en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, qualifier:computer security) Being or relating to a security vulnerability allowing the attacker to write arbitrary data to an arbitrary location.
    • A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory 2021, Arti Noor, Abhijit Sen, Gaurav Trivedi, Proceedings of Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems: ETTIS 2021, page 26:
    • 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: