CVE-2015-5257

CVE Details

Release Date:

2015-09-22

Description

drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.4 allowsphysically 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.

See more information about CVE-2015-5257 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3567	2017-05-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.18.2.el6uek)	ELSA-2017-3566	2017-05-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3566	2017-05-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3567	2017-05-16
Oracle Linux version 7 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.18.2.el7uek)	ELSA-2017-3566	2017-05-16
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3566	2017-05-16
Oracle VM version 3.2 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2017-0106	2017-05-16
Oracle VM version 3.3 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2017-0105	2017-05-16

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