NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in cypress_m8 USB serial driver in Linux kernel before 4.5.1

CVE-2016-3137 · MEDIUM Severity

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

drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.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 USB device without both an interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor, related to the cypress_generic_port_probe and cypress_open functions.

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