Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0617-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: It was found that the fix for CVE-2015-1805 incorrectly kept buffer offset and buffer length in sync on a failed atomic read, potentially resulting in a pipe buffer state corruption. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or leak kernel memory to user space. Continue reading...
