Description: Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information and gain escalated privileges.
This also fixes a vulnerability in the locking of SysV IPC shared memory regions, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain resource limitations.
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