CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2184

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2016-04-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.5.0) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • novell suse linux enterprise software development kit 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise software development kit 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise debuginfo 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise desktop 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise live patching 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise module for public cloud 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise real time extension 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise real time extension 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise server 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise server 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise workstation extension 12.0

References