CVE-2015-5257

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-11-16 11:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-07 18:16:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

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

DSA-3372

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-2792-1

USN-2794-1

USN-2795-1

USN-2798-1

USN-2799-1

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

Vendor Advisory

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