Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3107-2)

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Ubuntu 16.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerability (USN-3107-2) (Dirty COW)

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...