CVE-2016-2384 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2384?

CVE-2016-2384 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Apr 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Double free vulnerability in the snd_usbmidi_create function in sound/usb/midi.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an invalid USB descriptor.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2384?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2384?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-2384 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2384 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2384, GHSA-7h8g-mrh3-v7rc, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2384.