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CentOS 6 Linux Servers Receive Important Kernel Security Patch, Update Now
We reported a couple of days ago that Johnny Hughes from the CentOS Linux team published an important kernel security advisory for users of the CentOS 7 operating system. But it looks like users of the long-term supported CentOS 6 Linux…
But it looks like users of the long-term supported CentOS 6 Linux operating system series are also affected, and the CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2016:2105 informs them about an important kernel update. Yes, of course, we're talking about the "Dirty COW" bug patched recently by Linus Torvalds himself and pushed to all supported Linux kernel branches, and documented at
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SOC Incident Playbook: Vulnerability Remediation & Verification
title: Detect Exploitation - CentOS 6 Linux Servers Receive Important Kernel Security Patch, Update Now
id: 22fe215a-73e0-4791-9938-5c5f6bb53a31
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-27
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-27"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "CentOS 6 Linux Servers Receive" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("CentOS 6 Linux Servers Receive Important")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*CentOS 6 Linux Servers Receive Important*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "CentOS 6 Linux Servers Receive Important"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc2. Cyber Threat Intelligence & Forensik
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Netzwerk/Remote-Zugriff ohne Vorauthentifizierung möglich.
- 1. Perimeter-Inspektion: Relevante Portfreigaben und exponierte Endpunkte unverzüglich scannen.
- 2. Patch-Applikation: Hersteller-Hotfix einspielen oder betroffene Daemons in isolierte DMZ-Segmente überführen.
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