CVE-2017-16532

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

The get_endpoints function in drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.

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-2017-16532

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16532.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7c80f9e4a588f1925b07134bb2e3689335f6c6d8

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.14-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.13.13-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.13.13-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.13.13-1
debian debiansidfixed4.13.13-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.13.13-1
linux linux-kernelaffected3.2.95
debian debian7.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu17.10affected

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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