Security News > 2016 > October > Serious Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability Under Attack (Threatpost)
2016-10-21 15:21
A privilege escalation vulnerability, nicknamed Dirty Cow and present in Linux since 2007, has been used in public attacks against web-facing Linux servers.
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