CVSS 3.0
4.6 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-3951
Medium (4.6). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Double free vulnerability in drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device with an invalid USB descriptor.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- 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
- suse:suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1666984c8625b3db19a9abc298931d35ab7bc64b
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.html