CVE-2016-3951 Information

Description

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.

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=1666984c8625b3db19a9abc298931d35ab7bc64b http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/06/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91028 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2989-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2998-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3001-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3002-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3003-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3004-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324782 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1666984c8625b3db19a9abc298931d35ab7bc64b https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274 https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg367669.html

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