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DirtyCow Linux Kernel Vulnerability
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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/t...nerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344#c13
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DirtyCow Linux Kernel Vulnerability - by Techyllinux - 11-01-2016, 03:11 PM
RE: DirtyCow Linux Kernel Vulnerability - by Edward - 11-02-2016, 01:34 PM

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