CVE-2015-5257 (GCVE-0-2015-5257)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-11-16 11:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:41
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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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