CVE-2015-5257

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265607

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2799-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2798-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2795-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2794-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76834

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/23/1

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.4

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3372

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3