[LU-8758] kernel update [RHEL6.8 2.6.32-642.6.2.el6]

Related — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:51:02 +0000

Security Fix(es):

A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem
handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings.
An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to
otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the
system. (CVE-2016-5195, Important)

1384344 - CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage

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