Published: 02/05/2016 Updated: 12/09/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 0.9

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The powermate_probe function in drivers/input/misc/powermate.c in the Linux kernel prior to 4.5.1 allows physically proximate malicious users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2015-7515, CVE-2016-2184, CVE-2016-2185, CVE-2016-2186, CVE-2016-2187, CVE-2016-3136, CVE-2016-3137, CVE-2016-3138, CVE-2016-3140 Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Sec ...

The powermate_probe function in drivers/input/misc/powermatec in the Linux kernel before 451 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 ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c6ba456711687b794dcf285856fc14e2c76074f http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/85 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317015 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/117 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c6ba456711687b794dcf285856fc14e2c76074f http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84337 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2969-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3607 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2970-1/

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