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Kernel security issues Dirty COW

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 2:30 pm
by mike08
There is a vulnerability that has been ongoing for years until a propperly patch has been released by Linux OS developers, as no one has mentioned this earlier I took the chance to do so.
More information can be found over here: https://dirtycow.ninja/

You will have to update your kernel on Debian and CentOS versions by following these steps:

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apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
For debian based systems

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yum update
for Redhat based systems

After those commans have been issued you will have to reboot your machine.

Re: Kernel security issues Dirty COW

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:31 am
by skurudo
It's pretty important thing!
Thanks for let forum users know too.

PS: Sticky post for some time ;-)

Re: Kernel security issues Dirty COW

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 10:08 pm
by m4th3us
I'm using ubuntu 14.04

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 apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade
will broke my vestacp install?

Re: Kernel security issues Dirty COW

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:09 am
by mehargags
no it will not break anything on ubuntu

Also,
is there a fix yet for CentOS ? Redhat did not have an update until last week though

Re: Kernel security issues Dirty COW

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:17 pm
by mike08
mehargags wrote:no it will not break anything on ubuntu

Also,
is there a fix yet for CentOS ? Redhat did not have an update until last week though
Doing yum update will do the trick whenever there are patches from the CentOS dev team.

Re: Kernel security issues Dirty COW

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 3:48 pm
by durjoy
centos has released the patch.

Just type #yum update

Re: Kernel security issues Dirty COW

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:22 am
by skurudo
Closed for now.
Sticky for 30 days more.