[Announce] Kernel RHEL6 042stab123.2

Vasily Averin vvs at openvz.org
Wed May 3 23:17:23 PDT 2017


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 042stab123.2)

* [Moderate] It was found that keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() function leaked thread keyring which could allow an unprivileged local user to exhaust kernel memory. (CVE-2017-7472)
* net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr.
* net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve.

For more info and downloads, see:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab123.2

See also
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2017-7472.html

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

Regards,
    OpenVZ team


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