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CVE-2016-0774 Linux Kernel moderate vulnerability

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LinuxOS.pro; By Rob Kennedy 		Mail this story
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Recently it was found that the fix for this issue incorrectly kept buffer offset/length in sync on a failed atomic read. This could result in a pipe buffer state corruption – and a local, unprivileged user could use this to crash the system / leak kernel memory to the user space.

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