ubuntu · CVE-2016-2184

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Priority: low Published: 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-09-25 08:31:09 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2184 low priority: Ubuntu including 99 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 828 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 549, not-affected 133, released 113, ignored 33.

Description:

The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

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