CVE-2016-5829 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5829?

CVE-2016-5829 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 27 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5829?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2016-5829?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-5829 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5829 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5829, GHSA-66jc-9397-h8vf, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5829.