CVE-2016-2188

medium

Published 2016-05-02 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.6

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.6

Description

The iowarrior_probe function in drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.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 crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

46%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39556 dos linux

OpenSource Security · 2016-03-14

Linux Kernel 3.10.0-229.x (CentOS / RHEL 7.1) - 'iowarrior' Driver Crash (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.9.16-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.9.16-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.9.16-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.9.16-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.9.16-1`
suse	11.0	affected
suse	12.0	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
linux-kernel		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
novell	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`11.0`
novell	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`12.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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