** Description changed:

- There is a race condition in install_user_keyrings() routine, leading to
- a NULL pointer dereference. It occurs during parallel invocation of the
- install_user_keyrings & lookup_user_key routines, for the same user, if
- `uid' and `uid-session' keyrings are not yet created. An unprivileged
- user could use this flaw to crash the system, resulting in DoS.
+ Race condition in the install_user_keyrings function in
+ security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 allows
+ local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and
+ system crash) via crafted keyctl system calls that trigger keyring
+ operations in simultaneous threads.
  
  Break-Fix: - 0da9dfdd2cd9889201bc6f6f43580c99165cd087

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