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CVE-2016-3138
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% 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 acm_probe function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.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 USB device without both a control and a data endpoint descriptor.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
- Linux kernel: through 4.5.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11.0-sp4
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12.0, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Live Patching: 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Module For Public Cloud: 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11.0-sp4, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-extra, 11.0-sp4, 12.0, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp4, 12.0, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12.0, 12.0-sp1
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8835ba4a39cf53f705417b3b3a94eb067673f2c9
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/14/4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1
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