CVE-2016-2188

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

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.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: physical. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Linux

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-02 10:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-08 01:29:00

Affected Software

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12.0

12.0

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.0

12.0

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.0 Service Pack 1

12.0

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11.0 Service Pack 4

11.0

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12.0 Service Pack 1

12.0

Linux Kernel

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

References

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

Vendor Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2016:1382

SUSE-SU-2016:1672

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:1690

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:1696

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:1707

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:1764

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:2074

20160315 Re: oss-2016-15: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS - RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB device descriptors (iowarrior driver)

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

20160310 oss-2016-15: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS - RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB device descriptors (iowarrior driver)

Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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

USN-2968-1

USN-2968-2

USN-2969-1

USN-2970-1

USN-2971-1

USN-2971-2

USN-2971-3

USN-2996-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-2997-1

Third Party Advisory

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

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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

Vendor Advisory

39556

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