[CentOS] Linux TCP flaw

Fri Aug 12 06:31:55 UTC 2016
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>


On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, Alice Wonder wrote:

> 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.

I stand corrected. Thanks!

Barry