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CVE-2015-5257
drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL…
Medium4.9EPSS 0.43%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- DSA-3372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 76834 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-2792-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2794-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2799-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2795-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265607 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cbb4be652d374f64661137756b8f357a1827d6a4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150922 Vulnerability in WhiteHEAT Linux Driver-CVE-2015-5257 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2798-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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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