CVE-2016-5400 (GCVE-0-2016-5400)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-06 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:00
VLAI
Summary
Memory leak in the airspy_probe function in drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c in the airspy USB driver in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted USB device that emulates many VFL_TYPE_SDR or VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV devices and performs many connect and disconnect operations.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358184 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036432 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aa93d1fe… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92104 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2016-07-15 00:00
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