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

Mon Oct 24 16:29:11 UTC 2016
Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu>

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

> 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.

Patch is out on RHEL side:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2098.html

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