CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-1805

7.2 HIGH Published 2015-08-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-17

Description

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."

Affected configurations

• google android 4.4.3 • google android 5.0.1 • google android 5.1 • google android 5.1.1 • google android 6.0 • linux linux kernel (<= 3.15.10)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References