vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-5829: Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 27, 2016
Added
Oct 21, 2016
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-abi-whitelistsredhat-upgrade-kernel-bootwrapperredhat-upgrade-kernel-debugredhat-upgrade-kernel-debug-debuginforedhat-upgrade-kernel-debug-develredhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginforedhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-i686redhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64redhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-s390xredhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64redhat-upgrade-kernel-develredhat-upgrade-kernel-docredhat-upgrade-kernel-firmwareredhat-upgrade-kernel-headersredhat-upgrade-kernel-kdumpredhat-upgrade-kernel-kdump-debuginforedhat-upgrade-kernel-kdump-develredhat-upgrade-kernel-rtredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debugredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-debuginforedhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-develredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginforedhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-develredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-docredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-traceredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-trace-debuginforedhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-trace-develredhat-upgrade-kernel-toolsredhat-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginforedhat-upgrade-kernel-tools-libsredhat-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-develredhat-upgrade-perfredhat-upgrade-perf-debuginforedhat-upgrade-python-perfredhat-upgrade-python-perf-debuginfo

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