CVE-2016-5400
Memory leak in the airspy_probe function in drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c in the airspy USB driver in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted USB device that emulates many VFL_TYPE_SDR or VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV devices and performs many connect and disconnect operations.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Memory leak in the airspy_probe function in drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c in the airspy USB driver in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted USB device that emulates many VFL_TYPE_SDR or VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV devices and performs many connect and disconnect operations.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aa93d1fee85c890a34f2510a310e55ee76a27848
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92104
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036432
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358184
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aa93d1fee85c890a34f2510a310e55ee76a27848