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Re: Kernel Local Privilege Escalation - CVE-2016-5195
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:12:34 +0100
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On 20 October 2016 at 23:32, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> As far as I can see, it is not trivial to apply the patch to the
> current EL kernels. Hopefully Red Hat publishes the patched kernel
> soon.
>
> But if you really need to run a fixed kernel today, I suggest you
> install the latest kernel-ml from ELRepo. It is version 4.8.3 and does
> contain the referenced patch.
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
>
> Akemi

Further to Akemi's note (above), the latest kernel-lt (EL5, EL6 & EL7)
and the latest kernel-ml (EL6 & EL7) package sets, available from the
ELRepo Project, all contain the upstream patch (commit
19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619).

Alan.

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