Linux users urged to protect against 'Dirty COW' security flaw
Organisations and individuals have been urged to patch Linux servers immediately or risk falling victim to exploits for a Linux kernel security flaw dubbed ‘Dirty COW'.
This follows a warning from open source software vendor Red Hat that the flaw is being exploited in the wild.
Phil Oester, the Linux security researcher who uncovered the flaw, explained to V3 that the exploit is easy to execute and will almost certainly become more widely used.
"The exploit in the wild is trivial to execute, never fails and has probably been around for years - the version I obtained was compiled with gcc 4.8," he said.
Also: New Debian Linux Kernel Update Addresses "Dirty COW" Bug, Three Security Issues
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