[Ksplice][Virtuozzo 4 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (2.6.18-408.el5.028stab120.3)
Oracle Ksplice
ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com
Thu Oct 27 08:59:16 PDT 2016
Synopsis: 2.6.18-408.el5.028stab120.3 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2016-5195
Systems running Virtuozzo 4 or the OpenVZ RHEL 5 kernel can now use
Ksplice to patch against the latest Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
kernel security update, 2.6.18-408.el5.028stab120.3.
INSTALLING THE UPDATES
We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Virtuozzo 4 or
OpenVZ on RHEL 5 install these updates.
On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.
Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:
# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y
DESCRIPTION
* Improved fix for CVE-2016-5195: Privilege escalation when handling private mapping copy-on-write.
The original fix for CVE-2016-5195 was incomplete when get_user_pages()
was called for multiple pages.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.
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