Dirty COW vulnerability was first discovered a decade ago and has been present in Linux kernel versions from 2.6.22, which was released in 2007. But the vulnerability gained attention only recently when hackers started exploiting it. This has led to the release of this bug as CVE-2016-5195 on October 19th, 2016. What is Dirty Cow vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195)? CVE-2016-5195 aka “Dirty … Continue reading How to fix Dirty Cow vulnerability in CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, CloudLinux and OpenSuse Linux servers