CVE-2016-3138

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5.1

Description The issue allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and system crash, via a USB device without both a control and a data endpoint descriptor. This is due to a problem in the acm probe function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5.1, update to version 4.5.1 or later to resolve the issue.