Ubuntu releases Dirty COW patch
Last week, Canonical began to provide online Kernel patch services for Ubuntu 4.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus) running 64-bit systems and Linux Kernel 16.04 LTS Kernel, last weekend, Luis Henriques of Canonical launched the first Kernel Live Patch Security Bulletin, reminding official Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and other flovers users to perform updates as soon as possible.
The first Linux Kernel update is to fix the recently popular Dirty COW vulnerability. In addition to the write copy operation, attackers may be allowed to obtain administrator privileges (root ). The second Kernel Vulnerability was detected by Vladim ír beneish. In the Linux Kernel VLAN and TEB general-purpose receiving overload (GRO) processing process, remote attackers may be allowed to use Denial-of-Service to cause problems such as stack corruption and system crash.
From: http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/551489.htm
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