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Cover artwork for the article “Escaping Dirty Pipe (a.k.a. CVE-2022-0847), mostly unscathed”.

Escaping Dirty Pipe (a.k.a. CVE-2022-0847), mostly unscathed

You may have heard that there was a very critical Linux kernel vulnerability making the rounds. As with all important enough vulnerabilities, this one has a catchy name: Dirty Pipe (no logo, though). This blogpost attempts to explain how that vulnerability impacted Replit. The good news is that as far as we know, there weren't any successful exploitations of it!