CVE - CVE-2016-2184

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-2184	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.
References
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MISC:20160310 oss-2016-16: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS - RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB device descriptors (snd-usb-audio driver) URL:http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/88 MISC:20160310 oss-2016-17: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS - RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes (multiple free) on invalid USB device descriptors (snd-usb-audio driver) URL:http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/89 MISC:20160314 Re: oss-2016-17: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS - RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes (multiple free) on invalid USB device descriptors (snd-usb-audio driver) URL:http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/102 MISC:39555 URL:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39555/ MISC:84340 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84340 MISC:DSA-3607 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1019 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1672 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1690 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1707 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1764 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:2074 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html MISC:USN-2968-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1 MISC:USN-2968-2 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2 MISC:USN-2969-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2969-1 MISC:USN-2970-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1 MISC:USN-2971-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-1 MISC:USN-2971-2 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-2 MISC:USN-2971-3 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-3 MISC:USN-2996-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1 MISC:USN-2997-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1 MISC:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f886ca12765d20124bd06291c82951fd49a33be URL:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0f886ca12765d20124bd06291c82951fd49a33be MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317012 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317012 MISC:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f886ca12765d20124bd06291c82951fd49a33be URL:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f886ca12765d20124bd06291c82951fd49a33be MISC:https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html URL:https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html MISC:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1 URL:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1 MISC:openSUSE-SU-2016:1008 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20160129	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160129)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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