CVE-2016-2188

Description

The iowarrior_probe function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 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://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39556/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ec0ef3a82125efc36173062a50624550a900ae0

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317018

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

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-3

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2969-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/118

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ec0ef3a82125efc36173062a50624550a900ae0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3