CVE-2015-7515 (GCVE-0-2015-7515)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-27 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
The aiptek_probe function in drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted USB device that lacks endpoints.
Severity
4.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2016-04-27 00:00
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