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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.65% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006063
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2782  (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 treo_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device that lacks a (1) bulk-in or (2) interrupt-in endpoint.

CVSS Base Scores

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