CVE-2016-2184: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.5.0
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: version 11.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Live Patching: version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Module For Public Cloud: version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: version 12.0 only

Published 2016-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.