FPII-2620: Update: Denial of service vulnerability in kernel sound driver (device specific)
CVE-2016-6690 A-28838221
A denial of service vulnerability in the kernel could allow a local malicious application to cause a device reboot.
This issue is rated as Low because it is a temporary denial of service.
Note: This is an update to CVE-2016-6690, which was released as part of the September 2016 partner security bulletin.
Additional technical details:
Bug Details A-28838221
The original fix used -EIO as the error return code but the function signatures had unsigned int as the return type.
The updated fix uses -1 as the error return code instead of -EIO so the error return code is more clearly defined.
Change-Id: I7c2f17de060c700543a95aaec9036bcc5e7a5d02
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