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-====== Vulnerabilities - Dirty COW ======
-Dirty COW is an underlying issue was a race condition in the way kernel handles copy-on-write (COW).
-More information can be found on [[https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5195|CVE-2016-5195]].
-===== Check Vulnerability =====
-To find out if your server is affected, check your kernel version.
-<code bash>
-uname -rv
-</code>
-You'll see output like this:
-Output
-<code>
-.4.0-42-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 23:11:45 UTC 2016
-</code>
-If your version is earlier than the following, you are affected:
-  * 4.8.0-26.28 for Ubuntu 16.10
-  * 4.4.0-45.66 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
-  * 3.13.0-100.147 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
-  * 3.2.0-113.155 for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
-  * 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 for Debian 8
-  * 3.2.82-1 for Debian 7
-  * 4.7.8-1 for Debian unstable
-===== Fix Vulnerability =====
-<code bash>
-sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
-</code>
-<WRAP info>
-On Redhat use:
-sudo yum update kernel
-</code>
-Then reboot.