CVE-2016-2188

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2016-2188 · Published 02/05/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-2188 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting suse linux enterprise software development kit (novell).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.7% 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 iowarrior_probe function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.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.

References

git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit · Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.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/msg00056.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/118 · Third Party Advisory
seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/87

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