Important CentOS 7 Linux Kernel Security Update Addresses Five Vulnerabilities

CentOS maintainer Johnny Hughes informs the community of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based and security-oriented operating system about the availability of an important kernel update.

As CentOS is based on the freely distributed sources of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, it also inherits its security updates, and the latest one patches five vulnerabilities discovered recently in the kernel packages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, affecting CentOS 7 users too.

According to the upstream security advisory, which was marked by Red Hat as important, the updated kernel packages were patched against a buffer overflow (CVE-2017-7308) discovered in Linux kernel's packet_set_ring() function, which could allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_RAW acce... (read more)

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