Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-2187

Title: Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-2187.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2016

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-2187: The gtco_probe function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor.

Impacted Vendors

suse 1

novell 1

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85425 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2989-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2998-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3001-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3002-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3003-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3004-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3005-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3006-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3007-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317017 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85425 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2989-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2998-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3000-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3001-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3002-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3003-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3004-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3005-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3006-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3007-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317017 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Attack Vector

PHYSICAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-2187 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 02, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector PHYSICAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.