CVE-2014-3186 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3186?

CVE-2014-3186 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 28 Sep 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the picolcd_raw_event function in devices/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the PicoLCD HID device driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3, as used in Android on Nexus 7 devices, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted device that sends a large report.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3186?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3186?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-3186 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3186 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3186, GHSA-cg5g-vw88-93vq, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3186.