LINUX DIRTY PIPE PROBLEM

Sometimes bad actors inject bad code to do bad things to your computer and you end up having a bad day. Sometimes, there was a hole in the operating system that wasn't found for say, oh...about a year and a half. The nice thing about the Linux community is that it works very fast to fix the problem. Here are some links to understand what Dirty Pipe is about. Make sure your systems are up-to-date!

https://www.howtogeek.com/790435/new-dirty-pipe-linux-vulnerability-is-the-worst-in-years/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/linux-has-been-bitten-by-its-most-high-severity-vulnerability-in-years/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dirty-pipe-linux-vulnerability-discovered-fixed/

https://9to5linux.com/canonical-patches-dirty-pipe-vulnerability-in-ubuntu-21-10-and-20-04-lts-update-now

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