Important CentOS 7 Linux Kernel Security Update Patches Five Vulnerabilities

CentOS maintainer Johnny Hughes recently published a new security advisory for user of the CentOS 7 operating system series to inform them about an important kernel security update.

CentOS is based on the freely distributed sources of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, which means that it always inherits its most recent security patches, and the latest kernel update is here to address a total of five vulnerabilities, as well as to fix a bunch of bugs.

According to the upstream security advisory from Red Hat, the kernel update fixes a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-7477) discovered way Linux kernel allocates heap memory to build the scattergather list from a fragment list(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list) in the s... (read more)

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