Dirty COW: The Linux Developer kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman ανακοίνωσε τρεις νέες updates maintenance patches for Linux 4.8, 4.7, and 4.4 of the LTS kernel series, which fix a major security vulnerability.
The Linux kernel vulnerability is known as "Dirty COW," and is documented in CVE-2016-5195. In fact, it is a very ugly bug that could be used by locals users to write to any archive even if it had read only rights.
The worst thing is that this security flaw exists from the Linux kernel at least from the 2.6.x series that reached the end of its life in February of this year.
"This is an ancient error that I tried to fix once eleven years ago," reveals Linus Torvalds in an email.
Of course, those who use Linux should upgrade their Kernel directly.
