CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8019

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-05-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The skb_copy_and_csum_datagram_iovec function in net/core/datagram.c in the Linux kernel 3.14.54 and 3.18.22 does not accept a length argument, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a write system call followed by a recvmsg system call.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 3.14.54 • linux linux kernel 3.18.22

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References