The October 2016 patch addressed the Dirty COW vulnerability for both regular pages and transparent huge pages (supported since kernel approximately 2.6.38), according to Shapiro.

Now that the Dirty Cow hole has been patched in the Linux kernel, it’s only a matter of time until the fix makes its way into Android, too. But the soonest it will be available is with the ...

The 9-year-old Dirty COW vulnerability was recently fixed, if you're running a patched kernal. Here's how to know if your Linux is safe.

The code exploits the Dirty Cow vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195), a well-known privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, which came to light in 2016.