Buffer overflow in Linux kernel - CVE-2014-3184
Published: September 28, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41281
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3184
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The report_fixup functions in the HID subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 might allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device that provides a small report descriptor, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-cherry.c, (2) drivers/hid/hid-kye.c, (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg.c, (4) drivers/hid/hid-monterey.c, (5) drivers/hid/hid-petalynx.c, and (6) drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.c.
Affected software
Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-lts-trusty (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-lts-trusty (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3184
Install update from vendor's website.
linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.6.32-67.134, 3.2.0-70.105, 3.13.0-37.64
linux-lts-trusty (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.13.0-37.64~precise1
linux-lts-trusty (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.13.0-37.64~precise1
External References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ab25786c87eb20857bbb715c3ae34ec8fd6a214
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1318.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/11/21
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69768
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2374-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2375-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2376-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2377-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2378-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2379-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141391
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=91
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ab25786c87eb20857bbb715c3ae34ec8fd6a214