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Ubuntu: Determine system vulnerability for Dirty COW CVE-2016-5195

The Dirty COW vulnerability affects the kernel of most base Ubuntu versions.  Especially when running an Ubutu HWE stack, it can be a bit confusing to determine if your kernel and Ubuntu version are affected. If you need to validate patching, then you can use a simple C program to exercise this read-only write vulnerability Ubuntu: Determine system vulnerability for Dirty COW CVE-2016-5195