[Users] Dirty COW

[Ian]

On 25/10/2016 15:01, Dmitry Mishin wrote:
> For those who missed an announce -
> https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab120.3 is available since
> 22 Oct.
> 
> Thank you,
> Dmitry.

Hi,

There appears to be another kernel released for RHEL 6:

	https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab120.5

> 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)

I was hit by these bugs and had to stop vz from starting at boot to get
round them.


Regards

Ian
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