CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-3137

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2016-05-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-02
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

drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.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 USB device without both an interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor, related to the cypress_generic_port_probe and cypress_open functions.

Affected configurations

• 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 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • linux linux kernel (<= 4.5.0)

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