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HistoryOct 19, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

K17458 : Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2015-1805

2015-10-1900:00:00
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6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.1%

Security Advisory 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.” (CVE-2015-1805)

Impact

A local unprivileged user may use this flaw to crash the system, or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.