Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.2.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006052
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-5257  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.2.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) 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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