CentOS maintainer Johnny Hughes has informed the community about the availability of yet another important kernel security update, this time for users of the CentOS Linux 7 operating system series.
CentOS being derived from the freely distributed sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it always receives the latest security fixes from upstream. The updated kernel packages for CentOS 7 are here to patch a total of four vulnerabilities discovered lately and patched by Red Hat.
These are a race condition flaw (CVE-2017-2636, reported by Alexander Popov) in Linux kernel’s N_HLDC driver, which could allow an unprivileged local user to gain root access by setting the HDLC line discipline on a TTY device, as well as a flaw (CVE-2017-2618) in t… (read more)
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