[Announce] [ANNOUNCE] Kernel RHEL6 stable 042stab120.5

Vasily Averin vvs at openvz.org
Wed Oct 26 03:24:54 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 042stab120.3)

- updated fix for CVE-2016-5915 mm: Privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage
previous fix version included into 042stab120.3.kernel was was incomplete
and can trigger a Node hang on a Container restore operation (PSBM-54242, OVZ-6817).

- Kernel crash on boot during load of sb_edac module (PSBM-53566, OVZ-6809)

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/rhel6/042stab120.5

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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See http://planet.openvz.org/ to view all the news (including updates)
online. There you can also find RSS/Atom feed links.

Regards,
    OpenVZ team


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