We have installed the patches for the “Dirty COW“, the privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. They even have a logo for it.
The AWS patches are here. If you use other systems that run on Linux, you should check to make sure these changes are made:
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-757.html
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-758.html
