CVE-2013-2891

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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-119

Description

drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_STEELSERIES is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device.

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=137772184614622&w=1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/28/13
http://marc.info/?l=linux-input&m=137772184614622&w=1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/28/13

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