CVE-2013-2888

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a crafted device that provides an invalid Report ID.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.11; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+252)

References

http://marc.info/?l=linux-input&m=137772180514608&w=1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/28/13
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1490.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1976-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1977-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2019-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2021-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2022-1

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