An important Linux kernel security patch has been released today, March 6, 2017, for users of the CentOS 7 operating system series, addressing a total of four vulnerabilities discovered recently.
CentOS 7 series are based on on the freely distributed sources of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating system, which means that it always inherits its newest kernel security updates. This one happens to be an important one, and users are urged to update their systems immediately to kernel-3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.
According to upstream RHSA-2017:0386-1 security advisory, the kernel patch resolves a vulnerability (CVE-2016-8630) found in Linux kernel’s KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) implementation, which could occur on 32-bit (x86) platforms when an… (read more)
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