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F5: CVE-2016-5829: K28056114: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-5829

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Oct 22, 2016

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2016-5829
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-5829
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K28056114
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-6764
CWE-119
EUVD-EUVD-2016-6764

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