Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel HID Subsystem

CVE-2013-2891 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_STEELSERIES is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device.

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