Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Security Advisory: Important
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 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):
Important: This update disables the DCCP kernel module at load time by using the
kernel module blacklist method. The module is disabled in an attempt to reduce
further exposure to additional issues. (BZ#1426311)
Red Hat would like to thank Andrey Konovalov (Google) for reporting
CVE-2017-6074. The CVE-2017-2634 issue was discovered by Wade Mealing (Red Hat
Product Security).
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.