UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3186

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3186

    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3186

    Published: 28 Sept 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3186
    Aliases:
    USN-2376-1
    USN-2377-1
    USN-2378-1

    Summary:

    Details: Buffer overflow in the picolcd_raw_event function in devices/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the PicoLCD HID device driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3, as used in Android on Nexus 7 devices, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted device that sends a large report.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3186, https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=101, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/11, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2376-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2377-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2378-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2379-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3186

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-37.64

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3186 | CVE-DB