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CVE-2016-3137 Detail

Current Description

drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a USB device without both an interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor, related to the cypress_generic_port_probe and cypress_open functions.


View Analysis Description

Evaluator Description

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Hyperlink Resource
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c55aee1bf0e6b6feec8b2927b43f7a09a6d5f754
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/14/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84300
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316996
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c55aee1bf0e6b6feec8b2927b43f7a09a6d5f754

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-3137
NVD Published Date:
05/02/2016
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
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