Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's snd-usb-audio Driver

CVE-2016-2184 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

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