[kernel-sec-discuss] r4514 - dsa-texts

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Author: carnil
Date: 2016-07-04 05:04:15 +0000 (Mon, 04 Jul 2016)
New Revision: 4514

Modified:
   dsa-texts/3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3
Log:
Expand proposed text for CVE-2016-5828

Modified: dsa-texts/3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3	2016-07-03 14:37:25 UTC (rev 4513)
+++ dsa-texts/3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3	2016-07-04 05:04:15 UTC (rev 4514)
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
 
     Cyril Bur and Michael Ellerman discovered a flaw in the handling of
     Transactional Memory on powerpc systems allowing a local user to
-    cause a denial of service (kernel crash) by starting a transaction,
-    suspending it, and then calling any of the exec() class system
-    calls.
+    cause a denial of service (kernel crash) or possibly have
+    unspecified other impact, by starting a transaction, suspending it,
+    and then calling any of the exec() class system calls.
 
 CVE-2016-5829