Denial of Service and Possible Other Impact in Linux Kernel USB Serial Driver (CVE-2015-8104)

CVE-2015-5257 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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