** Description changed:

- A flaw was found in the way pipe_iov_copy_from_user() and
- pipe_iov_copy_to_user() functions handled iovecs remaining len
- accounting on failed atomic access. An unprivileged local user could
- this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges
- on the system.
+ The (1) pipe_read and (2) pipe_write implementations in fs/pipe.c in the
+ Linux kernel before 3.16 do not properly consider the side effects of
+ failed __copy_to_user_inatomic and __copy_from_user_inatomic calls,
+ which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or
+ possibly gain privileges via a crafted application, aka an "I/O vector
+ array overrun."
  
  Break-Fix: - f0d1bec9d58d4c038d0ac958c9af82be6eb18045
  Break-Fix: - 637b58c2887e5e57850865839cc75f59184b23d1

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