CVE-2015-1805: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Google Android: version 4.4.3 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 6.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.15.10

Published 2015-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.