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Red Hat 5.6 RHSA-2016:2127-01 Important Kernel Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2016
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An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Long Life

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-5195, Important)
Red Hat would like to thank Phil Oester for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update privilege escalation security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5195 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/DirtyCow

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server):
Source: kernel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.src.rpm
i386: kernel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.i686.rpm
ia64: kernel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.57.1.el5.ia64.rpm
noarch:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2127-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2127.html
Issue date: 2016-10-31

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 LongLife.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update privilege escalation security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server) - i386, ia64, noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1384344 - CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage

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