Important: kernel security update
Security Advisory: Important
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long
Life.
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 each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating
system.
Security Fix(es):
Red Hat would like to thank Phil Oester for reporting this issue.
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.