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JimW

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Registered: 2015-12-08

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"Dirty COW" - CVE-2016-5195

Has this been patched in Scorpion or is it needed?

"Dirty COW" - CVE-2016-5195
https://access.redhat.com/security/vuln … s/DirtyCow

tlmiller76

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Registered: 2016-11-29

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Re: "Dirty COW" - CVE-2016-5195

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tra … -2016-5195

Fixed in both Orion (based on Jessie) and Scorpion (based on Stretch)

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crosscourt

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Re: "Dirty COW" - CVE-2016-5195

Check out www.lwn.net if you want to keep up on security updates for various distros including Debian.
They list security updates put out daily.

Last edited by crosscourt (2017-12-19 23:23)

JimW

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Re: "Dirty COW" - CVE-2016-5195

Thanks guys.
I was researching something else and saw a note to be sure that patch had been applied, so, even though I know Q4OSteam and Debian stays on top of things, I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.

crosscourt

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Re: "Dirty COW" - CVE-2016-5195

Its not like Windows where you can wait quite awhile for a fix.  Fixes come out very quickly and news on the changes is easy to access.

Some changes require an active role by admins/managers/operators and thats where problems crop up.