[Announce] [ANNOUNCE] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab117.14

[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 042stab117.6)

* The fix for CVE-2016-5696. 
An attacker with knowledge of a connections client IP, server IP, and server port can abuse the challenge ACK mechanism and remotely inject or control a TCP stream contents in a connection between a Linux device and its connected client/server. All 042stab kernels are affected. (PSBM-50954)
* Node can crash and reboot due to a crash in nfsd_inetaddr_event on container stop if the NFS server has been started on host. 042stab117.x kernels are affected. (PSBM-49999)
* cpt: Crash after restore of Unix sockets with in-flight file descriptors. The issue can result in node crash after suspended containers are resumed. All 042stab kernels are affected. (PSBM-51254, PSBM-51351)
* CISCO UCS eNIC driver wraps untagged traffic into vlan0. Kernels 042stab112.15 and newer are affected. (PSBM-51149)
* Memory corruption during dump of containers with shared tmpfs mounts can lead to node crash or soft lockup on any mount-related operation on node or inside containers. This is a special case of a more global issue with similar symptoms (PSBM-47639) that was fixed in kernel 042stab117.2. All 042stab kernels are affected. (OVZ-6779)
* aacraid: Crash in aac_intr_normal(). Kernels 042stab112.15 and newer are affected. PSBM-49814)
* cpt: Unable to restore container with a bridge inside. All 042stab117.x kernels up to 042stab117.10 are affected (PSBM-50893)
* Ext4: a bug in the extent tree height calculation code could lead to a file system corruption on particular workloads. 042stab117.x kernels up to 042stab117.8 are affected (PSBM-50339)

See also
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5696
https://help.virtuozzo.com/customer/portal/articles/2549710

For more info and downloads, see:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6-testing/042stab117.14

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

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Regards,
    OpenVZ team