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CentOS: (CVE-2016-5829) CESA-2016:2006: kernel

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CentOS: (CVE-2016-5829) CESA-2016:2006: kernel

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/21/2016
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-abi-whitelists
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-firmware
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • centos-upgrade-perf
  • centos-upgrade-python-perf

References

  • DLA-609-1
  • DSA-3616
  • USN-3070-1
  • USN-3070-2
  • USN-3070-3
  • USN-3070-4
  • USN-3071-1
  • USN-3071-2
  • USN-3072-1
  • USN-3072-2
  • CVE-2016-5829
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