Mykola Naugolnyi from CloudLinux announced the availability of a new, updated and improved kernel for users of the CloudLinux 7 operating system in the Beta channels.
Updated to version 3.10.0-614.10.2.lve1.4.48, the new CloudLinux 7 kernel can be downloaded from the updates-testing repository, and it looks like it adds a fix for a security issue (CVE-2017-7895) that was patched upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 series of operating systems, among other supported releases that were also affected.
“The NFSv2 and NFSv3 server implementations in the Linux kernel through 4.10.13 lack certain checks for the end of a buffer. A remote attacker could trigger a pointer-arithmetic error or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted requests related to fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c,” reads the security advisory… (read more)
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