[kernel-sec-discuss] r5059 - dsa-texts

[Ben Hutchings]

Author: benh
Date: 2017-03-08 14:58:18 +0000 (Wed, 08 Mar 2017)
New Revision: 5059

Modified:
   dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2
Log:
Clean up wording for CVE-2017-2636

Modified: dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2
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--- dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2	2017-03-08 14:56:53 UTC (rev 5058)
+++ dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u2	2017-03-08 14:58:18 UTC (rev 5059)
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 
 CVE-2017-2636
 
-    Alexander Popov discovered a race condition flaw in the N_HLDC when
-    accessing n_hdlc.tbuf that can lead to a double free. A local,
+    Alexander Popov discovered a race condition flaw in the n_hdlc
+    line discipline that can lead to a double free. A local
     unprivileged user can take advantage of this flaw for privilege
     escalation. On systems that do not already have the n_hdlc module
     loaded, this can be mitigated by disabling it: