CVE-2014-3184
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
The report_fixup functions in the HID subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 might allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device that provides a small report descriptor, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-cherry.c, (2) drivers/hid/hid-kye.c, (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg.c, (4) drivers/hid/hid-monterey.c, (5) drivers/hid/hid-petalynx.c, and (6) drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.c.
CVSS Metrics
- v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.7AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 21%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
Affected Systems
- linux•linux_kernel
≤ 3.16.1 | 3.16.0
References (19)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2377-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1318.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2375-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141391
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69768
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=91
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/11/21
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2378-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2374-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ab25786c87eb20857bbb715c3ae34ec8fd6a214
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab25786c87eb20857bbb715c3ae34ec8fd6a214
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2379-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2376-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html