Denial of Service and System Crash Vulnerability in Linux Kernel USB DVB Driver

CVE-2017-16538 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (general protection fault and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device, related to a missing warm-start check and incorrect attach timing (dm04_lme2510_frontend_attach versus dm04_lme2510_tuner).

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