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Re:Dirty cow – privilege escalation vuln. in the Linux Kernel by 0x0 on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:13PM (#12753612)
The "am I affected" section is incredibly misinformative. Reading the page on iOS it merely says "no" with no further explanation... So maybe the bug was just in an unreleased development kernel? Nope, Debian just released patches I needed to apply on my servers. So I was definitively affected and the page lied. Looks like it's just some javascript looking for "linux" or "android" in the user-agent string. It'll probably even say "yes" if you're browsing on a patched linux pc.
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Re:Dirty cow – privilege escalation vuln. in the Linux Kernel by sne11ius on Thursday October 20, 2016 @01:36PM (#12754362)
Yes, take a look at the source:

  <script>document.write(navigator.userAgent.match(/Linux|Android/)?'Yes':'Nope')</script>
Its embarrassing imo. If you feel your vuln. is so important it needs to have its own website, at least give reliable info about this or tell us why you can't.
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Re:Dirty cow – privilege escalation vuln. in the Linux Kernel by Daviey on Thursday October 20, 2016 @02:52PM (#12755071)
Please direct any questions to the vulnerability twitter account:

http://twitter.com/DirtyCOWVuln

Or

https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io

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