Meaning of write-what-where | Babel Free

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

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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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