CVE-2016-8655

Bug #1647693 reported by Andre Nathan
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Bug Description

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the af_packet implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or run arbitrary code with administrative privileges.

Full description: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-8655.html

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