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CVE-2015-7833

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel package 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 through 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor.

Affected products

• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 12-sp1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3396
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3426
• http://www.os-s.net/advisories/DOS-KernelCrashesOnInvalidUSBDeviceDescriptors-UsbvisionDriver.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536629
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77030
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034452
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-2

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