Dirty COW and clean commit messages
Dirty COW and clean commit messages
[Front] Posted Oct 21, 2016 17:08 UTC (Fri) by corbet
We live in an era of celebrity vulnerabilities; at the moment, an unpleasant kernel bug called "Dirty COW" (or CVE-2016-5195) is taking its turn on the runway. This one is more disconcerting than many due to its omnipresence and the ease with which it can be exploited. But there is also some unhappiness in the wider community about how this vulnerability has been handled by the kernel development community. It may well be time for the kernel project to rethink its approach to serious security problems.