Synopsis: Important: kernel Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:2105-1 Issue Date: 2016-10-25 CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-5195 -- 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) -- SL6 x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm i386 kernel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm perf-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.i686.rpm kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm noarch kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.noarch.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team