Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5400

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-08-06 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:00:59
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.