CVE-2013-1860

medium

Published 2013-03-22 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.9

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the wdm_in_callback function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted cdc-wdm USB device.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

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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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`3.0.70`

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.2.41-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.2.41-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.2.41-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.2.41-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.2.41-1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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