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CVE-2016-5829

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• 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: 2016-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddev_ioctl_usage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) HIDIOCGUSAGES or (2) HIDIOCSUSAGES ioctl call.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Linux kernel: before 3.2.82; from 3.3 before 3.10.103; from 3.11 before 3.12.62; from 3.13 before 3.14.74; from 3.15 before 3.16.37; from 3.17 before 3.18.37 — fixed in 3.10.103, 3.12.62, 3.14.74, 3.16.37, 3.18.37, 3.2.82
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 12-sp1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.10.103, 3.12.62, 3.14.74, 3.16.37. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93a2001bdfd5376c3dc2158653034c20392d15c5
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00050.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00052.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00053.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00054.html

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