Copy on Write - Dirty COW Kernel bug

[Steve Beattie]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 09:56:32AM +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> On 24 October 2016 at 07:16, Steve Beattie <sbeattie at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > What are the specific versions you are seeing?
> >
> Here they are:-
> i$ cat /proc/version_signature
> Ubuntu 4.4.0-45.66-generic 4.4.21
> i
> $ uname -a
> Linux turing 4.4.0-45-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 19 14:12:37 UTC 2016
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
> Release:    16.04
> Codename:    xenial

You're good to go, that version contains the fix for the Copy on Write
issue, CVE-2016-5195.

Thanks.

-- 
Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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