CVE-2017-16531

medium
Published 2017-11-04 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
6.6

Description

drivers/usb/core/config.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device, related to the USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION descriptor.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16531

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16531.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/hP6L-m59m_8/Co2ouWeFAwAJ

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bd7a3fe770ebd8391d1c7d072ff88e9e76d063eb

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.14-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.13.10-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.13.10-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.13.10-1
debian debiansidfixed4.13.10-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.13.10-1
linux linux-kernelaffected3.2.95

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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