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CVE-2016-2188
The iowarrior_probe function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to…
Medium4.6EPSS 1.8%
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- redhat
Description
The iowarrior_probe function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.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 crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (23)
- USN-2971-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1690 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 39556 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 20160310 oss-2016-15: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS - RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB device descriptors (iowarrior driver) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ec0ef3a82125efc36173062a50624550a900ae0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1696 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2970-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2969-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2968-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317018 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2971-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2997-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1764 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2971-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1707 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2996-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1672 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2968-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1382 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ec0ef3a82125efc36173062a50624550a900ae0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20160315 Re: oss-2016-15: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS - RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB device descriptors (iowarrior driver) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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