Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004821
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2184  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). 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 Base Scores

version 3.1