CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5257

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2015-11-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-11-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.2.3)

References