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CVE-2014-3185
medium
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in the command_port_read_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a bulk response.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6817ae225cd650fb1c3295d769298c38b1eba818
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=98
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2379-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2378-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2377-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2376-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2375-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2374-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69781
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1318.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html