CVE-2016-2187

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The gtco_probe function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Linux kernel: through 4.5.2
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11-extra, 11-sp4
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp4

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85425
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2989-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2998-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3001-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3002-1

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