You appear to have hijacked this (DirtyCOW) thread. You may want to re-post your question as a new message so that it won't get mingled with this discussion. ------------ Original Message ------------ > Date: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 21:03:48 -0400 > From: "Christopher G. Halnin" <cghalnin at pnri.dost.gov.ph> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CVE-2016-5195 DirtyCOW: Critical Linux Kernel Flaw > > Dear Sir/s, > > Can a crashed centos system be restore to its previous state before > it crash? And if so, can you please tell me how to do it? Thanks, > your help is very much appreciated. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard" <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 5:05:59 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CVE-2016-5195 DirtyCOW: Critical Linux Kernel > Flaw > >> Date: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 18:49:56 -0500 >> From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> >> >> On Tue, November 1, 2016 6:25 pm, Tony Mountifield wrote: >>> In article <5818CD31.4050008 at moving-picture.com>, >>> James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote: >>>> Leonardo Oliveira Ortiz wrote: >>>> > RedHat and Centos 4.x can be explored by this flaw? >>>> >>>> See: >>>> >>>> https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5195 >>> >>> In other words, no: RHEL 4 and CentOS4 are not affected by this >>> flaw. >> >> My understanding is: RHEL is obsolete, hence it will not even be >> mentioned on that page, whether it is known to be affected or not. >> > > RHEL/Centos-4 is EOL so wouldn't be updated regardless (at least > under the normal EOL guidelines), but it is mentioned toward the > bottom of that page under "Affected Packages State": > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel Not affected > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ------------ End Original Message ------------