RHSA-2016:1539HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
August 2, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2015-8660 →CVE-2016-2143 →CVE-2016-4470 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-8660 — kernel: Permission bypass on overlayfs during copy_up CVE-2016-2143 — kernel: Fork of large process causes memory corruption CVE-2016-4470 — kernel: Uninitialized variable in request_key handling causes kernel crash in error handling path

🎯 Affected products169

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

🔗 References (7)