CVE-2015-4003 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-4003?

CVE-2015-4003 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Jun 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The oz_usb_handle_ep_data function in drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozusbsvc1.c in the OZWPAN driver in the Linux kernel through 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and system crash) via a crafted packet.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4003?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4003?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-4003 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4003 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-4003, GHSA-v3q7-q964-x82m, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4003.