Branch: refs/heads/master
  Home:   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
  Commit: dde259dfb5a0787b28e260da7575079bbabad6c3
      
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/dde259dfb5a0787b28e260da7575079bbabad6c3
  Author: Franz Pletz <[email protected]>
  Date:   2016-07-12 (Tue, 12 Jul 2016)

  Changed paths:
    M pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/patches.nix
    M pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

  Log Message:
  -----------
  linux: Add patch to fix CVE-2016-5829 (#16824)

Fixed for all available 4.x series kernels.

>From CVE-2016-5829:

  Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddev_ioctl_usage function
  in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allow
  local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified
  other impact via a crafted (1) HIDIOCGUSAGES or (2) HIDIOCSUSAGES ioctl
  call.


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