RHSA-2016:2766HighCVSS 8.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
November 15, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2016-1583 →CVE-2016-2143 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-1583 — kernel: Stack overflow via ecryptfs and /proc/$pid/environ CVE-2016-2143 — kernel: Fork of large process causes memory corruption

🎯 Affected products188

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 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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