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

[Andrew Daviel]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Andrew Daviel wrote:
>
> I still hope for an official RedHat patch "soon"


https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2124.html
kernel-2.6.18-416.el5.src.rpm is available for RHEL 5

kernel-2.6.18-416.el5.x86_64.rpm is available for CentOS 5  (28-Oct-2016 06:21)
kernel-2.6.18-416.el5.x86_64.rpm is available for SL 5  (28-Oct-2016 10:10)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2105.html
kernel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.src.rpm is available for RHEL 6

kernel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm is available for CentOS  6 (26-Oct-2016 00:31)
kernel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm  is available for SL 6 (25-Oct-2016 16:52)

I expect to schedule a reboot of trcomp01/02 "soon" (days; the SL5 
update has not quite arrived on our mirror) and remove the 
systemtap workaround (restoring debuggers)



-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376  (Pacific Time)
Network Security Manager