DSA-2508 kfreebsd-8 - privilege escalation

Submitted by chantra on Sun, 07/22/2012 - 01:00

Rafal Wojtczuk from Bromium discovered that FreeBSD wasn't handling correctly
uncanonical return addresses on Intel amd64 CPUs, allowing privilege escalation
to kernel for local users.

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