Security News – Dirty COW Serious Linux Exploit
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A nine year old Linux Vulnerability has come to light and is being Actively Exploited – Linux Copy On Write (COW) where a race condition can lead to privilege escalation. Allowing something like a SQL exploit against a Web sever to lead to full Root access of the system.
CVE 2016-5195
Get any Linux facing servers patched as soon as posible.
More Information:
http://dirtycow.ninja/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/most-serious-linux-privilege-escalation-bug-ever-is-under-active-exploit/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/21/linux_privilege_escalation_hole/
Exploit:
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/PoCs
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2016-10-21 23:59:53
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