{"id":6125,"date":"2016-08-03T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2016-08-03T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:06:01","slug":"kernelcare-is-now-available-for-centos-rhel-7-kernels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=6125","title":{"rendered":"KernelCare is now available for CentOS &#038; RHEL 7 kernels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KernelCare for CentOS &#038; RHEL 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KernelCare is now available for CentOS &#038; RHEL 7 kernels.<br \/>\nLatest CentOS \/ RHEL kernels can be patched against privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2014-4943. Other supported kernels were patched against it last week <\/p>\n<p>CVEs: CVE-2014-4943 <\/p>\n<p>Systems with AUTO_UPDATE=True (DEFAULT) in \/etc\/sysconfig\/kcare\/kcare.conf will automatically update, and no action is needed for them. <\/p>\n<p>You can manually update the server by running:<br \/>\n# \/usr\/bin\/kcarectl &#8211;update <\/p>\n<p>Details:<br \/>\nCVE-2014-4943 kernel: net: pppol2tp: level handling in pppol2tp_[s,g]etsockopt()<br \/>\nA flaw in the Linux kernel allowing an unprivileged user to escalate to kernel privilege when CONFIG_PPPOL2TP is enabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KernelCare for CentOS &#038; RHEL 7<\/p>\n<p>KernelCare is now available for CentOS &#038; RHEL 7 kernels. Latest CentOS \/ RHEL kernels can be patched against privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2014-4943. Other supported kernels were patched against it last week <\/p>\n<p>CVEs: CVE-2014-4943 <\/p>\n<p>Systems with AUTO_UPDATE=True (DEFAULT) in \/etc\/sysconfig\/kcare\/kcare.conf will automatically update, and no action is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6126,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}