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A new CentOS 6 kernel within CentOS 6 ELS has been scheduled for gradual rollout from our production repository.

Rollout slot: 4
Rolled out to: 0.1%
ETA for 100% rollout: September 21


CHANGELOG

kernel-2.6.32-754.35.8.el6

  • ELSCVE-666: CVE-2021-34693: can: bcm: fix infoleak in struct bcm_msg_head
  • ELSCVE-705: CVE-2021-38160: virtio_console: Assure used length from device is limited
  • ELSCVE-769: CVE-2014-4508: x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys (CVE-2014-4508)
  • ELSCVE-844: CVE-2021-3573: Bluetooth: use correct lock to prevent UAF of hdev object
  • ELSCVE-503: CVE-2021-32399: bluetooth: eliminate the potential race condition when removing the HCI controller
  • ELSCVE-451: CVE-2021-37159: hso: fix a use after free condition
  • ELSCVE-387: CVE-2021-38205: net: xilinx_emaclite: Do not print real IOMEM pointer
  • ELSCVE-547: CVE-2021-3178: nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn’t return parent of export
  • ELSCVE-547: nfsd: fix compose_entry_fh() failure exits
  • ELSCVE-547: nfsd: make local functions static
  • ELSCVE-682: CVE-2021-20265: af_unix: fix struct pid memory leak
  • ELSCVE-531: CVE-2021-20292: drm/ttm/nouveau: don’t call tt destroy callback on alloc failure.
  • ELSCVE-543: CVE-2021-28972: PCI: rpadlpar: Fix potential drc_name corruption in store functions
  • ELSCVE-575: CVE-2021-3612: Input: joydev – prevent use of not validated data in JSIOCSBTNMAP ioctl
  • ELSCVE-575: Input: joydev – prevent potential read overflow in ioctl
  • ELSCVE-575: Input: joydev – fix possible ERR_PTR() dereferencing
  • ELSCVE-575: Input: joydev – use memdup_user() to duplicate memory from user-space

UPDATE COMMAND

yum update kernel-*

IMMEDIATE UPDATE (VIA BYPASS)

yum update kernel-* --enablerepo=ELS6-rollout-4-bypass

 

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