CVE-2015-8844

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which could cause a kernel panic when restoring machine specific registers on the PowerPC platform. Incorrect transactional memory state registers could inadvertently change the call path on return from userspace and cause the kernel to enter an unknown state and crash.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6,

This issue affects the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2 realtime kernels.

For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ .

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