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Elevation of privilege vulnerability in USB driver

CVE-2015-8816

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• CVE numbers: CVE-2015-8816 [Bulletin-CVE-2015-8816]
• Coordinated disclosure?: unknown
• Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in USB driver
• Details: The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 does not properly maintain a hub-interface data structure, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by unplugging a USB hub device. [NIST-CVE-2015-8816]
• Discovered by: on: Unknown
• Reported on: 2016-07-01 [Bulletin-CVE-2015-8816]
• Fixed on: Unknown
• Fix released on: Unknown
• Affected versions: regex:
• Affected devices:
• Affected manufacturers: all [Bulletin-CVE-2015-8816]
• Fixed versions:
• Submission: by: Daniel Carter, on: 2019-07-29