CVE-2015-1805

Name	CVE-2015-1805
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."
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-246-1, DSA-3290-1
NVD severity	high

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	stretch	4.9.228-1	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.9.210-1+deb9u1	fixed
	buster	4.19.146-1	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.152-1	fixed
	bullseye, sid	5.9.1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.68-1+deb7u2	DSA-3290-1
linux	source	(unstable)	3.16.2-2
linux-2.6	source	squeeze	2.6.32-48squeeze12	DLA-246-1
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f0d1bec9d58d4c038d0ac958c9af82be6eb18045 (v3.16-rc1)
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=637b58c2887e5e57850865839cc75f59184b23d1 (v3.15-rc1)