CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-2186.md

CVE-2016-2186

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.

POC

Reference

• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/85
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1

Github

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