CVE-2016-3951

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

CWE-415: Double Free

Double free vulnerability in drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device with an invalid USB descriptor.

CWE-415: Double Free

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

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-02 10:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-13 01:29:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.10

15.10

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.0

12.0

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.0 Service Pack 1

12.0

Linux Kernel 4.5.0 Release Candidate 7

4.5.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1666984c8625b3db19a9abc298931d35ab7bc64b

Vendor Advisory

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274

Vendor Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2016:1382

SUSE-SU-2016:1690

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:1696

Third Party Advisory

SUSE-SU-2016:1764

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3607

[oss-security] 20160406 Fwd: CVE Request: Linux: usbnet: memory corruption triggered by invalid USB descriptor

91028

1036763

USN-2989-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-2998-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-3000-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-3001-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-3002-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-3003-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-3004-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-3021-1

Third Party Advisory

USN-3021-2

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324782

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1666984c8625b3db19a9abc298931d35ab7bc64b

Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274

Vendor Advisory

[netdev] 20160304 Re: Possible double-free in the usbnet driver

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