[Announce] [ANNOUNCE] Kernel RHEL6 stable 042stab120.3

[Vasily Averin]

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 042stab120.2)

- mm: Privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage. (CVE-2016-5195) A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.

See also
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2016-5195.html

For more info and downloads, see:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab120.3

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

Other sources of info on updates
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Regards,
    OpenVZ team