How to fix the latest Linux and Android 0-Day flaw

So I didn’t think the flaw found by Perception Point (CVE-2016-0728) was in the direct User Path but it is definitely a security flaw that needs to be fixed. I give credit to ZDnet for creating this article on how to fix the problem.

How to fix the latest Linux and Android zero day flaw

Summary:

Debian/Mint/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

$ sudo reboot

Fedora/CentOS/RHEL (When released)

$ sudo yum update $ reboot

openSUSE or SLES

as the root user:

# zypper patch # reboot