CVE-2013-2897
Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through…
- 4.7MediumCVSS base score
- 0.44%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 62% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH is enabled, allow physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.7 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 62% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
17
- USN-2015-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2024-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.54 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 62044 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [linux-input] 20130828 [PATCH 11/14] HID: multitouch: validate feature report details (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2039-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2022-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130828 Linux HID security flaws (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2016-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2038-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2020-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2021-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0481 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0566 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2019-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2023-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2050-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-2836 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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