Vulnerability CVE-2016-3137
Published: 2016-05-02

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise debuginfo 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise desktop 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise live patching 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise module for public cloud 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise real time extension 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise server 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise software development kit 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise workstation extension 
Linux -> Linux kernel 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c55aee1bf0e6b6feec8b2927b43f7a09a6d5f754
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://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.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
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