We reported the other day that an ancient bug, which existed in the Linux kernel since 2005, was patched in several recent updates, namely Linux kernel 4.8.3, Linux kernel 4.7.9, and Linux kernel 4.4.26 LTS.
One day later, the maintainers of other supported Linux kernel branches patched the bug, which is dubbed by researchers as “Dirty COW” and documented as CVE-2016-5195. As such, today we’d like to inform those of running GNU/Linux distributions powered by kernels from the Linux 3.16, 3.12, 3.10, and 3.2 series that new updates are available for their systems.
The “Dirty COW” vulnerability, which is tagged in the appended shortlogs of the new kernel versions mentioned above as “mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()”, was <a href="https:… (read more)
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