CVE-2016-5400

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5400
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5400.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5400
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-06T20:59:02.720Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:12:22.610077Z
Severity
  • 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Memory leak in the airspyprobe 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 VFLTYPESDR or VFLTYPE_SUBDEV devices and performs many connect and disconnect operations.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.6.6"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5400.json"