CVE-2015-7833 Denial of service in n/a
A physically proximate attacker can cause a system panic via a malicious USB device descriptor in the usbvision kernel driver.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-7833?
CVE-2015-7833 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 19 Oct 2015. 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
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.
Weakness: CWE-17
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7833?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension, Redhat Enterprise Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2015-7833?
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-2015-7833 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7833 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Enterprise Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7833, GHSA-w2rm-wmhp-cvj7, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7833.