Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.5.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005647
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2016

CVE-2016-3951  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

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

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