It was found that fix for CVE-2016-7097 was incomplete as it missed tmpfs. Upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=497de07d89c1410d76a15bec2bb41f24a2a89f31 CVE assignment: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/161
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1416128]
[disregard]
Statement: This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue. This flaw was fixed in the Red Hat products as a part of the CVE-2016-7097 fix.
Notes: This flaw was fixed in the Red Hat products as a part of the CVE-2016-7097 fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368938