VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2015-5257
CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.45%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2015-11-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
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.