CVE-2016-5400

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Memory leak in the airspy_probe function in drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c in the airspy USB driver in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted USB device that emulates many VFL_TYPE_SDR or VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV devices and performs many connect and disconnect operations.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.6.6

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aa93d1fee85c890a34f2510a310e55ee76a27848
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92104
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036432
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358184
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aa93d1fee85c890a34f2510a310e55ee76a27848
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aa93d1fee85c890a34f2510a310e55ee76a27848
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/1

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