CVE-2015-5257

 

Published at: - 16-11-2015 12:59

Last modified: - 21-09-2022 08:44

Total changes: - 2

Description

drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. NOTE: this ID was incorrectly used for an Apache Cordova issue that has the correct ID of CVE-2015-8320.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

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

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265607
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.4
• [oss-security] 20150922 Vulnerability in WhiteHEAT Linux Driver-CVE-2015-5257-
• 76834-
• USN-2794-1-
• DSA-3372-
• USN-2799-1-
• USN-2792-1-
• USN-2795-1-
• USN-2798-1-

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2015-5257

 

CVE

 

Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

CVSS

 

Common vulnerability scoring system

 

Security

 

Vulnerabilities

 

Exposures