CVE-2016-2184 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f886ca12765d20124bd06291c82951fd49a33be http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html 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/msg00059.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/102 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/88 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/89 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84340 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 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317012 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f886ca12765d20124bd06291c82951fd49a33be https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39555/ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

4.6