[Ksplice][EL7-Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (CVE-2016-5195)

[Jamie Iles]

Synopsis: CVE-2016-5195 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2016-5195

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-2016-5195.

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-2016-5195: Privilege escalation in copy-on-write memory mappings.

A race condition in the handling of copy-on-write memory mappings could
allow a local, unprivileged user to gain write access to read-only
memory mappings and escalate privileges.

SUPPORT

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