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Serious Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability Under Attack

🗓️ 21 Oct 2016 11:21:36Reported by Michael MimosoType 
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A 9-year-old Linux vulnerability nicknamed Dirty Cow affecting most major distributions allows local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a race condition in the copy-on-write feature. Mitigations are available, but current exploits bypass standard permission mechanisms

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