Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5829

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-06-27 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:15:10
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddev_ioctl_usage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) HIDIOCGUSAGES or (2) HIDIOCSUSAGES ioctl call.