CVE-2016-2188

medium

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

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

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

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39556/

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

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

Published: 2016-05-02

Updated: 2025-04-12

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

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00179