CVE-2016-3951

medium

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.

References

https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg367669.html

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

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

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3004-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3003-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3002-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3001-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2998-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2989-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91028

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/06/4

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-05-02

Updated: 2017-08-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium