FKIE_CVE-2016-5829
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-27 10:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:50
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| novell | suse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension | 12 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 |
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