[CentOS] Linux TCP flaw

Fri Aug 12 06:10:09 UTC 2016
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>

On 08/11/2016 11:07 PM, Barry Brimer wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Peter wrote:
>
>> On 12/08/16 17:56, Barry Brimer wrote:
>>>> [root at vps ~]# uname -r
>>>> 2.6.32-042stab108.7
>>>
>>> Not needed. This affects 3.6+ kernels. You don't have one of those.
>>
>> It affects RHEL6 which runs 2.6.32, they backported the features that it
>> affects.  If the above openvz kernel was based on a RHEL6 kernel (and
>> I'd guess it was) then it's affected.
>
> If this feature was backported, then it surely may be the case although
> I've not seen any reference indicating that.

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5696 says CentOS 6 is 
affected.