CVE-2014-3186

medium
Published 2014-09-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3186

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: chrome-cve-admin@google.com — http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=844817e47eef14141cf59b8d5ac08dd11c0a9189

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.16.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.16.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.16.5-1
debian debiansidfixed3.16.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.16.5-1
linux linux-kernelaffected3.2.63
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.