CVE-2015-7292

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the havok_write function in drivers/staging/havok/havok.c in Amazon Fire OS before 2016-01-15 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string to /dev/hv.

Affected products

Amazon Fire OS before 2016-01-15: through 5.0

References

https://marcograss.github.io/security/android/cve/2016/01/15/cve-2015-7292-amazon-kernel-stack-buffer-overflow.html
https://marcograss.github.io/security/android/cve/2016/01/15/cve-2015-7292-amazon-kernel-stack-buffer-overflow.html

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