CVE-2016-2186
MEDIUM 4.6EPSS 0.8%
The powermate_probe function in drivers/input/misc/powermate.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.
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 4.6 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C - EPSS
- 0.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 56th percentile
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c6ba456711687b…
- torvalds/linux/commit/9c6ba456711687b794dcf285856fc14e2c76074f
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/117
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317015
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84337
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2969-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-3