[Ksplice][EL7-Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (CVE-2016-0728)

[Jamie Iles]

Synopsis: CVE-2016-0728 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2016-0728

Systems running RHCK on Oracle Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7,
CentOS 7, and Scientific Linux 7 can now use Ksplice to patch against
CVE-2016-0728.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on OL 7, RHEL 7, CentOS
7, and Scientific Linux 7 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

* CVE-2016-0728: Privilege escalation in session keyrings.

A reference count imbalance with session keyrings could result in a
use-after-free condition.  A local, unprivileged user could use this
flaw to crash the system or gain arbitrary code execution in the kernel.

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.