Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

PT-2012-3098 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.2.10 Description: The issue is related to the mem cgroup usage unregister event function in mm/memcontrol.c, which does not properly handle multiple events attached to the same eventfd. This can be exploited b...