Dirty Cow - Linux Exploit - Update Ubuntu & CentOS Servers

News of “Dirty Cow” is all over the net.
In short all System Admins should sudo apt-get upgrade or sudo yum upgrade quickly.
Make sure you reboot your server after installing the fix as the new kernel needs to be invoked.

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how about Debian Jessie - since Ubuntu is based on that??

Yes

Instruction on removal from all Linux variants can be found here.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/dirtycow-linux-cve-2016-5195-kernel-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-fix/

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great, thanks a bunch

my kernel I updated 2 days ago is fixed anyhow

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