CVE-2015-7515

medium

Published 2016-04-27 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.6

Description

The aiptek_probe function in drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted USB device that lacks endpoints.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

46%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39544 dos linux

OpenSource Security · 2016-03-09

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 (CentOS / RHEL 7.1) - 'aiptek' Nullpointer Dereference

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.4.2-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.4.2-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.4.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.4.2-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.4.2-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`4.4`
linux-kernel	4.4	affected

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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