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DirtyCow Linux Kernel Vulnerability - Techyllinux - 11-01-2016
Recently a new Vulnerability is found and is very critical one . So Hurry upto get it upgraded asap
A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
Read more from the below links
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https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-server-against-the-dirty-cow-linux-vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344#c13
RE: DirtyCow Linux Kernel Vulnerability - Edward - 11-02-2016
Hi
This is very serious one and we have already patched almost all the servers which I manage. Thanks for the heads up