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

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:06:12 +0200
Christian Anthon <anthon at rth.dk> wrote:

> What is the best approach on centos 6 to mitigate the problem is 
> officially patched? As far as I can tell Centos 6 is vulnerable to 
> attacks using ptrace.

I can confirm that c6 is vulnerable, we're running a patched kernel
(local build) using a rhel6 adaptation of the upstream fix.

Ask off-list if you want an src.rpm

/Peter K