CVE-2016-2184

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2016-2184 · Published 27/04/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-2184 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting suse linux enterprise software development kit (novell).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 80.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
suse linux enterprise software development kit novell	`= 11.0= 12.0`	No fix yet

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

git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit · Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/102 · Third Party Advisory
seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/88

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