CWE Code: 20
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 5.6
CWE Name:  Improper Input Validation
Summary: the (1) pipe_read and (2) pipe_write implementations in fs/pipe.c in a certain linux kernel backport in the linux package before 3.2.73-2+deb7u3 on debian wheezy and the kernel package before 3.10.0-229.26.2 on red hat enterprise linux (rhel) 7.1 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." note: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for cve-2015-1805.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): PARTIAL/NONE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2016-04-27
Last Modified Date: 2016-12-03