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CVE-2014-3181

Kernel: HID: OOB write in magicmouse driver

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.2

CVSS 2.0

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Published · August 27, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way the Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad multi-touch driver handled Human Interface Device (HID) reports with an invalid size. An attacker with physical access to the system could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This issue affects the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 may address this issue.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write