[Triumf-linux-managers] 'CRITICAL' Risk CVE-2016-5195 Linux kernel privilege escalation

[Andrew Daviel]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Andrew Daviel wrote:

> the available exploit does not work on SL 5/6

This turns out not to be true
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344#c35
pokemon.c works against CentOS 6

I am still uncertain about whether to recommend the systemtap patch; 
people are still arguing on bugzilla.

I still hope for an official RedHat patch "soon"

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