** Description changed:

- The tty atomic_write_lock does not provide an exclusion guarantee for
- the tty driver if the termios settings are LECHO & !OPOST. And since it
- is unexpected and not allowed to call TTY buffer helpers like
- tty_insert_flip_string concurrently, this may lead to crashes when
- concurrect writers call pty_write. In that case the following two
+ The n_tty_write function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c in the Linux kernel
+ through 3.14.3 does not properly manage tty driver access in the "LECHO
+ & !OPOST" case, which allows local users to cause a denial of service
+ (memory corruption and system crash) or gain privileges by triggering a
+ race condition involving read and write operations with long strings.
  
  Break-Fix: d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc
  4291086b1f081b869c6d79e5b7441633dc3ace00

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