CVE-2016-2186 (GCVE-0-2016-2186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-02 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:24
VLAI
Summary
The powermate_probe function in drivers/input/misc/powermate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c6ba456… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/Chang… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2016-03-10 00:00
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