Serious Linux vulnerabilities “Dirty COW” is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel – Linux users urged to protect

Recently ,there have been some serious vulnerabilities found in various Linux systems. Whilst OS vulnerabilities are a common occurrence.

The ‘Dirty Cow’ bug was originally introduced nine years ago, and has been sitting unnoticed for much of that time.Officially called CVE–2016–5195 – was originally introduced to the kernel nine years ago, and has been sitting unnoticed for much of that time

The open-source Linux operating system is used by most of the servers on the internet as well as in smartphones

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