CVE-2015-5257

Published: 24 September 2015

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver contained hardcoded attributes about the USB devices. An attacker could construct a fake WhiteHEAT USB device that, when inserted, causes a denial of service (system crash).

Notes

android kernels (flo, goldfish, grouper, maguro, mako and manta) are
not supported on the Ubuntu Touch 14.10 and earlier preview kernels
linux-lts-saucy no longer receives official support
linux-lts-quantal no longer receives official support

'low' since it requires customized usb hardware and physical access

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5257
• https://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=144303376328355
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2794-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2792-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2795-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2799-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2796-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2798-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2797-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1499606