[Announce] Kernel RHEL6 stable 042stab113.21

Sergey Bronnikov sergeyb at openvz.org
Tue Mar 29 02:16:34 PDT 2016


OpenVZ project released an updated RHEL6 based kernel.
Read below for more information. Everyone is advised to update.

Changes and Download
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(since 042stab113.17)

* Missing bounds check in ipt_entry structure in netfilter. (PSBM-45193, CVE-2016-3134)
* IPv6 connect could cause DoS via NULL pointer dereference. (PSBM-45219, CVE-2015-8543)
* Pipe buffer state corruption after unsuccessful atomic read from pipe. (PSBM-45328, CVE-2016-0774)
* IPv6 link-local address was being assigned to slave interfaces in bonding
	which resulted in DAD and network routing issues. (PSBM-42433)
* kswap activity needed to be restricted in case of high-order requests. (PSBM-44291)
* Force charge swapin readahead pages if in ub0. (PSBM-44857)
* hostapd was broken in early RHEL6.7 kernels. (OVZ-6649)

See also
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-3134
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-8543
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-0774

For more info and downloads, see:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab113.21

Bug reporting
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Use http://bugs.openvz.org/ to report any bugs found.


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Regards,
    OpenVZ team


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