CVE-2013-2888: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a crafted device that provides an invalid Report ID.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.11; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.