Multiple buffer overflows in the command_port_read_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB Serial Driver…

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the command_port_read_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a bulk response.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.60% · top 51% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• USN-2377-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:1318 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2375-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6817ae225cd650fb1c3295d769298c38b1eba818 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0652 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6817ae225cd650fb1c3295d769298c38b1eba818 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=98 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0481 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20140911 Multiple Linux USB driver CVE assignment (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• USN-2378-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:0566 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141400 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0284 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2374-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 69781 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• USN-2379-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2376-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0812 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 10:35 UTC.