CVE-2016-2187

medium

Description

The gtco_probe function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317017

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3007-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3006-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3005-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3004-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3003-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3002-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3001-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2998-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2989-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85425

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-05-02

Updated: 2023-09-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium