USB PowerMate NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

CVE-2016-2186 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The powermate_probe function in drivers/input/misc/powermate.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 crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

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