Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel usbvision Driver Bug Lets Local Users Cause Denial of Service Conditions on the Target System
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1034452 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1034452
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2015-7833
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Dec 17 2015
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Impact:
Denial of service via local system
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Vendor Confirmed: Yes Exploit Included: Yes
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Version(s): RHEL 6, 7
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel. A local user can cause denial of service conditions on the target system.
A physically local user can load a specially crafted USB device to trigger a flaw in the usbvision driver to cause a kernel panic.
The original advisory is available at:
http://www.os-s.net/advisories/DOS-KernelCrashesOnInvalidUSBDeviceDescriptors-UsbvisionDriver.pdf
Sergej Schumilo, Hendrik Schwartke, and Ralf Spenneberg reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A physically local user can cause the target system to crash.
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Solution:
No solution was available at the time of this entry.
The vendor does not plan to fix this vulnerability, as described in their bug report, available at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270158
A proposed patch is available at:
http://git.linuxtv.org//media_tree.git/commit/?id=fa52bd506f274b7619955917abfde355e3d19ffe
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Vendor URL: www.kernel.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
State error
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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