Write-what-where
"Write-what-where" in a Sentence (2 examples)
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.
A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory
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