** Description changed:

  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.
+ 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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