Evan Teran has reported a security issue in the Linux kernel, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in ptrace when single-stepping a debugged child process with invalid values in the "CS" register, which can be exploited to cause a kernel oops.

Solution
Fixed in the GIT repository.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Evan Teran

Original Advisory
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8765

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