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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2015-1805
HistoryAug 08, 2015 - 10:59 a.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2015-08-0810:59:00
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6

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.1%

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 โ€œI/O vector array overrun.โ€

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