The latest flaw discovered is in the kernel and there it has resided for the past nine years.
The Dirty Cow affects all distributions and their severity level is very high.
The biggest problem is that the Dirty Cow has already remained for many years and is being actively explored.
The biggest problem is even its age and the amount of systems in which it operates.
The main systems already have an update available and that everyone should apply as soon as possible.
Both Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu who have released their patches for their systems.
Is Android also affected by Dirty Cow?
Unfortunately, the answer is yes.
Google is already alerted to the problem and shared with its partners regarding the problem.
It now remains to brands that they update their systems and their devices as soon as possible.
This would be just a flaw in Linux, that soon would be mitigated.
The problem is its age and the systems in which it operates.
