CVE-2016-5400 (GCVE-0-2016-5400)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-08-06 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
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