Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 27, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-0774
CVE-2016-0774
Description
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.
Affected products
2Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
24- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00025.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00026.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00027.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00028.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00029.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00030.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00031.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00032.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00033.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00034.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00036.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00037.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0494.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0617.htmlnvd
- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503nvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/84126nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0774nvd
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.