** 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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