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CVE-2017-16533

• 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 usbhid_parse function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Linux kernel: before 3.2.95; from 3.3 before 3.16.50; from 3.17 before 3.18.76; from 3.19 before 4.1.46; from 4.2 before 4.4.93; from 4.5 before 4.9.57 — fixed in 3.16.50, 3.18.76, 3.2.95, 4.1.46, 4.13.8, 4.4.93

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.16.50, 3.18.76, 3.2.95, 4.1.46. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102026
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f043bfc98c193c284e2cd768fefabe18ac2fed9b
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/CxkJ9QZgwlM/O3IOvAaGAwAJ
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102026
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f043bfc98c193c284e2cd768fefabe18ac2fed9b
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/CxkJ9QZgwlM/O3IOvAaGAwAJ
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/

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