More information about Dirty COW (aka CVE-2016-5195)
More information about Dirty COW (aka CVE-2016-5195)
[Security] Posted Oct 20, 2016 21:12 UTC (Thu) by jake
The security hole fixed in the 4.8.3, 4.7.9, and 4.4.26 stable kernel updates has been dubbed Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) by a site devoted to the kernel privilege escalation vulnerability. There is some indication that it is being exploited in the wild. Ars Technica has some additional information. The Red Hat bugzilla entry and advisory are worth looking at as well.