UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7833

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7833

    Published: 19 Oct 2015Last Modified: 26 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7833
    Aliases:
    USN-2929-1
    USN-2929-2
    USN-2932-1

    Summary:

    Details: The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel package 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 through 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7833, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201858, http://www.os-s.net/advisories/DOS-KernelCrashesOnInvalidUSBDeviceDescriptors-UsbvisionDriver.pdf, http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Oct/35, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2932-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2929-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2929-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2947-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2947-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2947-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2948-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2967-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2967-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7833

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-101.148

    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