CVE-2017-16538

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: 2017-11-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (general protection fault and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device, related to a missing warm-start check and incorrect attach timing (dm04_lme2510_frontend_attach versus dm04_lme2510_tuner).

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.13.11

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00007.html
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/XwNidsl4X04/ti6I2IaRBAAJ
https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/44566/
https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/44567/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3631-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3631-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4073
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4082
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00007.html
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/XwNidsl4X04/ti6I2IaRBAAJ
https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/44566/

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