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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:11683
HistoryJan 15, 2019 - 9:06 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2019-01-1509:06:06
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
15

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists as 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.”

References

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C