CVE-2016-2384

medium
Published 2016-04-27 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
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

Double free vulnerability in the snd_usbmidi_create function in sound/usb/midi.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an invalid USB 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-41999 local linux
Andrey Konovalov ยท 2016-02-22

Linux Kernel 3.x (Ubuntu 14.04 / Mint 17.3 / Fedora 22) - Double-free usb-midi SMEP Privilege Escalation

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.4.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.4.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.4.2-1
debian debiansidfixed4.4.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.4.2-1
linux linux-kernelaffected

References

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.