dirtyCOW exploit on Amlogic kernel

CGarces · October 24, 2016 at 2:47 PM

Hi!

Is this kernel exploit fixed on the LibreELEC kernels?

Dirty COW — Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild

I have check the Amlogic kernel and I think that should be patched.

ARMBian kernel had already fix this issue

dirtyCOW fix for 3.14 ... all fixed. · armbian/build@13f7e3f · GitHub

Sorry but I'm not confident enough to send the PR by myself.

Grimson · October 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM

It really doesn't matter, as everything running on LE is already running as the root user. So a privilege-escalation vulnerability doesn't change a thing here.