CVE-2016-2782

moderate-risk
Published 2016-04-27

The treo_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device that lacks a (1) bulk-in or (2) interrupt-in endpoint.

Do I need to act?

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0.47% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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1 public exploit available
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 4.6/10 Medium
PHYSICAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (18)

Affected Vendors

Suse Linux

References (42)

Issue Tracking http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cac9b5...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/28/9
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-1
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-2
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-1
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-2
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-3
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2932-1
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-1
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-2
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-1
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-2
Exploit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312670
Issue Tracking https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cac9b50b0d75a1d50d6c056ff65c005f3224c8e...
and 22 more references
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moderate-risk
Severity 16/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 19/34 · Moderate