CloudLinux’s Mykola Naugolnyi announced today the general availability of new stable kernel updates for the CloudLinux 7 and CloudLinux 6 operating system series.
CloudLinux is a commercial operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which means that it always backports the latest security fixes. The new CloudLinux 7 kernel (version 3.10.0-427.36.1.lve1.4.43) and CloudLinux 6 and Hybrid kernel (version 2.6.32-673.26.1.lve1.4.24) is here to fix the CVE-2017-2647 security flaw.
“A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found that can be triggered in keyring_search_iterator in keyring.c if type->match is NULL by unprivileged local user was found. It is possible that an attacker could crash the system or escalate privileges using this vulnerability,” reads the upstream security advisory.
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