[CentOS] CVE-2016-5195 “DirtyCOW”: Critical Linux Kernel Flaw

Sun Oct 23 01:20:24 UTC 2016
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Sat, October 22, 2016 7:49 pm, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I guess, we all have to urgently apply workaround, following, say, this:
>
> https://gryzli.info/2016/10/21/protect-cve-2016-5195-dirtycow-centos-7rhel7cpanelcloudlinux/
>
> At least those of us who still have important multi user machines running
> Linux.

I should have said CentOS 7. Older ones (CentOS 6 and 5) are not vulnerable.

> (Yes, me too, I do have a couple, thank goodness, the rest are
> already not ;-)

Luckily, no multi-user CentOS 7 machines here, only single user workstations.

Good luck, everybody!

Valeri

PS Sorry about a bit premature first message: I realize not that I was in
the same state of mind as back then when there was remote root SSH
vulnerability. It was long ago, but some may still remember that...

>
> Have a productive weekend, everybody.
>
> Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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