CVE-2015-1805 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1805?

CVE-2015-1805 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 8 Aug 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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."

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1805?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Android, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1805?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-1805 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1805 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 7 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1805, GHSA-c8vr-r7wq-hc48, RHSA-2015:1042, RHSA-2015:1120, RHSA-2015:1190, RHSA-2015:1211 and 1 more.