Security CentOS 6.x Kernel Security Update (reboot required)

CentOS 6.x and Redhat 6.x only Kernel security update (2.6.32-642.4.2.el6) is out which requires a yum update + server reboot Red Hat Customer Portal It looks like one of the fixes relates to CVE-2016-5696 outlined here which had CentOS 7.x fix but not CentOS 6.x. It seems the delay for CentOS 6.x could be due to additional security fixes outlined below.

For OpenVZ VPS folks, you'd want to contact your web host to ask if their OpenVZ host node kernels are up to date and OpenVZ provided 2.6.32 kernels are up to date for this fix.

More news links:

• CentOS 6 Linux OS Receives Important Kernel Security Update from Red Hat

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To update run yum update and answer y to proceed.

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yum update

Then need to reboot server

Then verify kernel was updated via commands

Code (Text):

uname -r

example

Code (Text):

uname -r
2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64