CVE-2016-2384

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Double free vulnerability in the snd_usbmidi_create function in sound/usb/midi.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an invalid USB descriptor.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.4.8
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 12-sp1

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=07d86ca93db7e5cdf4743564d98292042ec21af7
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00032.html

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