A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
This bug affects all versions of ClearOS and all version of Linux in the past 10 years (including Android). Users of ClearOS 5.x must upgrade to version 6 or 7 as no fix will be provided for ClearOS 5.x version which are now out of support.
Update to kernel version 3.10.0-327.36.3.v7 or later.
Update to kernel version 3.10.0-327.36.3.v7 or later.
Currently the patch for this fix has been built and is in the updates-testing repository. To install it run:
yum --enablerepo=clearos-updates-testing update kernel