** Description changed:

  It was found that kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device function did not check if
  the user requesting assignment was privileged or not. Together with
  /dev/kvm being 666, unprivileged user could assign unused pci devices,
  or even devices that were in use and whose resources were not properly
  claimed by the respective drivers. Please note that privileged access
  was still needed to re-program the device to for example issue DMA
  requests. This is typically achieved by touching files on sysfs
  filesystem. These files are usually not accessible to unprivileged
  users. As a result, local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
  
- Break-Fix: 4d5c5d0fe89c921336b95f5e7e4f529a9df92f53
- 3d27e23b17010c668db311140b17bbbb70c78fb9
+ Break-Fix: 4d5c5d0fe89c921336b95f5e7e4f529a9df92f53 
3d27e23b17010c668db311140b17bbbb70c78fb9
+ Break-Fix: 4d5c5d0fe89c921336b95f5e7e4f529a9df92f53 
423873736b78f549fbfa2f715f2e4de7e6c5e1e9

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