Chef, Inspec, and Dirty COW
Using Compliance to remediate CVE-2016-5195
Many of you know about or will hear about CVE-2016-5195 aka Dirty COW.
This particularly nasty kernel vulnerability has been around for years and likely affects a majority of the Linux nodes are currently running. The short form is that it allows an unprivileged user to gain root access to . . .
November 28, 2016