VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-16537

medium
Published 2017-11-04 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.6

Description

The imon_probe function in drivers/media/rc/imon.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 4.14-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.13.13-1
sid Fixed 4.13.13-1
forky Fixed 4.13.13-1
bullseye Fixed 4.13.13-1
bookworm Fixed 4.13.13-1

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.