RHSA-2016:0617Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
April 12, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2016-0774 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-0774 — kernel: pipe buffer state corruption after unsuccessful atomic read from pipe

🎯 Affected products108

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-504.46.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.6)
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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.

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