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Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2016-3137

MEDIUM4.6

drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8

Published May 2, 2016

Modified 1 years ago

No fix available

Details

drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.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 USB device without both an interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor, related to the cypress_generic_port_probe and cypress_open functions.

References

WEBhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c55aee1bf0e6b6feec8b2927b43f7a09a6d5f754 ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 WEBhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1 WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/14/3 WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84300 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-1 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-2 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-3 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1 WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316996 WEBhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c55aee1bf0e6b6feec8b2927b43f7a09a6d5f754 ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3137

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

4.6

Exploitability

Attack Vector

PhysicalAV:P

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

4.6/CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedMay 2, 2016

ModifiedAug 5, 2024

CVE-2016-3137 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence