VulnerabilityDeferred
CVE-2016-20022
NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the supplier.
HIGH 8.4EPSS 0.24%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.24%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
In the Linux kernel before 4.8, usb_parse_endpoint in drivers/usb/core/config.c does not validate the wMaxPacketSize field of an endpoint descriptor. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the supplier.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.4 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.24% probability · 15th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aed9d65ac3278d4febd8665bd7db59ef53e825fe
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1486322541-8206-8-git-send-email-w%401wt.eu/
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg144177.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aed9d65ac3278d4febd8665bd7db59ef53e825fe
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1486322541-8206-8-git-send-email-w%401wt.eu/
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg144177.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.