CVE-2016-2186

medium

Published 2016-05-02 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.6

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.6

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

46%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.0	Affected	—
11.0	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.5.1-1`
sid	Fixed	`4.5.1-1`
forky	Fixed	`4.5.1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.5.1-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.5.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
novell	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`11.0`
novell	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`12.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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