CVE-2015-8816
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 27, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 23, 2016
Description
The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 does not properly maintain a hub-interface data structure, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by unplugging a USB hub device.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- SUSE-SU-2016:1690vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2010vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e50293ef9775c5f1cf3fcc093037dd6a8c5684ea
- SUSE-SU-2016:1994vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- SUSE-SU-2016:1961vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2001vendor-advisory
- DSA-3503vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.3.5
- SUSE-SU-2016:2006vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2014vendor-advisory
- 83363vdb-entry
- SUSE-SU-2016:1764vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311589
- SUSE-SU-2016:1707vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:1672vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:1019vendor-advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
- SUSE-SU-2016:2009vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160223 CVE Request: Linux kernel USB hub invalid memory access in hub_activate()mailing-list
- SUSE-SU-2016:2005vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2007vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
- SUSE-SU-2016:1995vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2002vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e50293ef9775c5f1cf3fcc093037dd6a8c5684ea
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