CVE-2014-3184

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The report_fixup functions in the HID subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 might allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device that provides a small report descriptor, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-cherry.c, (2) drivers/hid/hid-kye.c, (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg.c, (4) drivers/hid/hid-monterey.c, (5) drivers/hid/hid-petalynx.c, and (6) drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.c.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.16.1; 3.16.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab25786c87eb20857bbb715c3ae34ec8fd6a214
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1318.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/11/21
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69768
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2374-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2375-1

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