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CVE-2017-16530

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.1)
• 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: 2017-11-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The uas driver in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device, related to drivers/usb/storage/uas-detect.h and drivers/usb/storage/uas.c.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 3.16.50; from 3.17 before 3.18.75; from 3.19 before 4.1.46; from 4.2 before 4.4.92; from 4.5 before 4.9.55; from 4.10 before 4.13.6 — fixed in 3.16.50, 3.18.75, 4.1.46, 4.13.6, 4.4.92, 4.9.55

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.16.50, 3.18.75, 4.1.46, 4.13.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/786de92b3cb26012d3d0f00ee37adf14527f35c4
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/pCswO77gRlM/VHuPOftgAwAJ
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/786de92b3cb26012d3d0f00ee37adf14527f35c4
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/pCswO77gRlM/VHuPOftgAwAJ

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