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GHSA-cg5g-vw88-93vq
GHSA-cg5g-vw88-93vq
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 17, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (4 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/844817e47eef14141cf59b8d5ac08dd11c0a9189 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141407 url
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=101 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69763 url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2379-1 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3186 advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=844817e47eef14141cf59b8d5ac08dd11c0a9189 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2376-1 url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2377-1 url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2378-1 url
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=844817e47eef14141cf59b8d5ac08dd11c0a9189 url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/11/22 url