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

Sun Oct 23 00:49:49 UTC 2016
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

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

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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