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CVE-2016-2782 json

The treo_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a deni…

published 2016-04-27 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3856

cvss
4.6
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The treo_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device that lacks a (1) bulk-in or (2) interrupt-in endpoint.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.5.0
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.4.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2782

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-83.127
  • linux-lts-wily Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.2.0-34.39~14.04.1
  • linux-lts-vivid Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.19.0-56.62~14.04.1
  • linux-lts-utopic Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.16.0-69.89~14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2782

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.58-14.1
  • kernel-compute SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.58-14.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.58-14.1
  • kernel-rt_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.58-14.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.58-14.1
  • kernel-compute_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.58-14.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-54.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-54.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2074-1SUSE-SU-2016:1764-1SUSE-SU-2016:1707-1SUSE-SU-2016:1690-1SUSE-SU-2016:1672-1SUSE-SU-2016:1203-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2782 updated cvss 4.0

kernel: visor: crash on invalid USB device descriptors in treo_attach() in visor driver

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-39539)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39539 Linux Kernel 3.10.0 (CentOS / RHEL 7.1) - visor 'treo_attach' Nullpointer Dereference dos, 2016-03-09
  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312670 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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