[kernel-sec-discuss] r5482 - dsa-texts

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at moszumanska.debian.org
Thu Aug 17 17:21:02 UTC 2017


Author: carnil
Date: 2017-08-17 17:21:02 +0000 (Thu, 17 Aug 2017)
New Revision: 5482

Modified:
   dsa-texts/3.16.43-2+deb8u3
Log:
Add wording fixes from Moritz M?\195?\188hlenhoff

Modified: dsa-texts/3.16.43-2+deb8u3
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/3.16.43-2+deb8u3	2017-08-17 17:21:01 UTC (rev 5481)
+++ dsa-texts/3.16.43-2+deb8u3	2017-08-17 17:21:02 UTC (rev 5482)
@@ -69,13 +69,13 @@
 
     It was discovered that the mq_notify() function does not set the
     sock pointer to NULL upon entry into the retry logic. An attacker
-    can take advantage of this flaw during a user-space close of a
+    can take advantage of this flaw during a userspace close of a
     Netlink socket to cause a denial of service or potentially cause
     other impact.
 
 CVE-2017-1000363
 
-    Roee Hay reported that the lp driver does not properly bounds check
+    Roee Hay reported that the lp driver does not properly bounds-check
     passed arguments, allowing a local attacker with write access to the
     kernel command line arguments to execute arbitrary code.
 




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