Dirty Cow - A New Nasty Linux Vulnerability Discovered

[Varti]

A new Linux vulnerability has been just discovered, called CVE-2016-5195 or "Dirty Cow", and it has been lurking in the code for at least 9 years, so probably most or all the kernels released for the Zaurus are affected:

https://www.linux.com/blog/how-bad-dirty-cow

Varti

[InSearchOf]

I wouldn't expect a fix any time soon... :-p

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A new Linux vulnerability has been just discovered, called CVE-2016-5195 or "Dirty Cow", and it has been lurking in the code for at least 9 years, so probably most or all the kernels released for the Zaurus are affected:

https://www.linux.com/blog/how-bad-dirty-cow

Varti

[greguu]

I wouldn't expect a fix any time soon... :-p

Late

A new Linux vulnerability has been just discovered, called CVE-2016-5195 or "Dirty Cow", and it has been lurking in the code for at least 9 years, so probably most or all the kernels released for the Zaurus are affected:

https://www.linux.com/blog/how-bad-dirty-cow

Varti

No Dirty Cow in the ArchLinux ARM kernel for 3x00, version 4.9-rc3  !

[InSearchOf]

Oh well then...    

Late

No Dirty Cow in the ArchLinux ARM kernel for 3x00, version 4.9-rc3  !

[Varti]

I wouldn't expect a fix any time soon... :-p

Late

No Dirty Cow in the ArchLinux ARM kernel for 3x00, version 4.9-rc3  !

No, I also don't think older ROMs wo be fixed  What's important is that currently maintained and used distros are safe, such as Alarmz...

Varti