CVE-2016-5400

Published August 6th, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.9

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

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.

torvalds/linux

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