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Re:“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is und... by kentonv on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:54PM (#12756519)
It would appear that the creators of the web site are not even affiliated with the people who found or fixed the bug.

"Dirty COW is a community-maintained project for the bug otherwise known as CVE-2016-5195. It is not associated with the Linux Foundation, nor with the original discoverer of this vulnerability. If you would like to contribute go to GitHub."

Seems fishy.

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Re:“Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug ever is und... by Senji on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:04PM (#12756589)
We live in a world where slightly arcane developer jokes are "SWAG squatted"
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