CVE - CVE-2015-5257

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-5257	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:76834 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76834 MISC:DSA-3372 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3372 MISC:USN-2792-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1 MISC:USN-2794-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2794-1 MISC:USN-2795-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2795-1 MISC:USN-2798-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2798-1 MISC:USN-2799-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2799-1 MISC:[oss-security] 20150922 Vulnerability in WhiteHEAT Linux Driver-CVE-2015-5257 URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/23/1 MISC:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4 URL:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4 MISC:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.4 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.4 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265607 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265607 MISC:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4 URL:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20150701	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150701)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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