[Announce] [SECURITY] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab114.5

Sergey Bronnikov sergeyb at openvz.org
Wed Mar 30 05:10:19 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 042stab113.21)

* CVE-2016-3156: ipv4: Don't do expensive useless work during inetdev
	(PSBM-42403) issue was workarounded in 042stab113.11 kernel by adding
	per-container limit on using of ipv4 addresses here old workaround is replaced
	by fix backported from mainline linux kernel.
* fix for kernel crash inside pick_next_task_fair() (PSBM-44475)
* ub memcg: fake use_hierarhy file is required for KVM's libvirtd (OVZ-6660)
* fix for kernel BUG at block/cfq-iosched.c:2806 (OVZ-6651)
* write to CIFS share hangs (OVZ-6642)
* some internal fixes

See also
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-3156

For more info and downloads, see:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6-testing/042stab114.5

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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