[Announce] Kernel RHEL6 042stab126.1

Vasily Averin vvs at openvz.org
Tue Nov 21 09:58:41 MSK 2017


OpenVZ project released an updated RHEL6 based kernel.
Read below for more information. Everyone is advised to update.

Changes and Download
====================
(since 042stab125.5)
* Rebase to RHEL6u9 kernel 2.6.32-696.16.1.el6
* [Moderate] A use-after-free vulnerability was found when issuing an ioctl to a sound device.
   This could allow a user to exploit a race condition and create memory corruption or possibly
   privilege escalation. (CVE-2017-15265)
* Hidden a warning observed during read of '/proc/vz/fairsched/*/cpu.proc.stat' 
   due to the incorrectly calculated 'iowait' parameter. (PSBM-56083)
* Container network interfaces (both venet and veth) did not show all dropped packets
   in the interface statistics. (PSBM-75049)
* Under certain conditions, node could be crashed during restore of a container with
   an active NFS mount. (PSBM-76898)

For more info and downloads, see:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab126.1

See also
========
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-2863.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-3200.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2017-15265.html

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

Regards,
    OpenVZ team


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