CVE-2016-5829

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 30
Modified
Published: 27 Jun 2016, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 01:15

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.12% LOW
0% probability +0.01%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 Jun 2016, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 01:15
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddev_ioctl_usage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) HIDIOCGUSAGES or (2) HIDIOCSUSAGES ioctl call.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.12%• Percentile: 30%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    12.04 | 14.04 | 16.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 3.2.82 | ≥ 3.3, < 3.10.103 | ≥ 3.11, < 3.12.62 | ≥ 3.13, < 3.14.74 | ≥ 3.15, < 3.16.37 | ≥ 3.17, < 3.18.37 | ≥ 3.19, < 4.1.28 | ≥ 4.2, < 4.4.16 | ≥ 4.5, < 4.6.5

  • novell•suse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension

    12:sp1

References (30)