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CVE-2016-3139

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The wacom_probe function in drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17 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

• Linux kernel: through 3.16.7
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11.0-sp4
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12.0
• 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
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp4, 12.0
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12.0

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=471d17148c8b4174ac5f5283a73316d12c4379bc
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.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/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283375
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283377
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316993
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/471d17148c8b4174ac5f5283a73316d12c4379bc
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3139

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