Pedit COW

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Pedit COW Turns a Normal Linux User Into Root While the Disk Stays Clean

June 27, 2026

A flaw in the Linux kernel called pedit COW lets a regular, unprivileged user rewrite /bin/su in memory and become root, while the copy on disk never changes …