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CVE-2016-5829

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddev_ioctl_usage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kern

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.00458
EPSS exploitation odds0.46% · top 62%
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
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This page is every public fact about CVE-2016-5829, cross-linked. Its job is to answer one question fast - does this need my attention now? - and then hand you the two things you do about it. Here is how an analyst reads it.
Triage: should I act now? Four signals, and they are not interchangeable:
CVSSseverity - how bad it is IF exploited, 0-10. A high CVSS alone is not urgency; a flaw can be a perfect 10 and never actually be attacked. EPSSprobability - a model’s estimate of the chance it is exploited in the next 30 days, 0-1. This is the “will it actually happen” signal. CISA KEVconfirmed - it is being exploited in the wild right now. The strongest signal on the page; KEV beats any score. Weaponisedavailability - public exploits / PoCs, and especially Metasploit modules rated Excellent / Great. Reliable, packaged exploit code means low-skill attackers can use it today.
How they combine: KEV, or a dependable Metasploit module, means patch now regardless of CVSS. High CVSS + low EPSS + no exploit is real but not an emergency - schedule it. Low CVSS but KEV-listed still gets patched now. The verdict above already weighed these for you; this is how it got there.
Then what - two workflows:
Detectwhen you cannot patch today, follow this CVE to the ATT&CK techniques it enables, then Build a SIEM detection (the green button) - author a rule, test it in Atomic, deploy it. That buys visibility while the patch waits. PatchAffected products / packages tell you if you are exposed; Fixed versions by distribution and Vendor advisories give the exact version that closes it.
Reading order for the panels below: verdict + badges, then Public exploits / Metasploit (is it weaponised), then ATT&CK techniques + Sigma / IDS rules (can I detect it), then Affected products / packages + Fixed versions (am I exposed, what patches it), then Threat actors / IOCs (who uses it), then Scoring & timeline / references (the evidence).
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Severity & exploitation scoring

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CVSS base score
7.8
HIGHCVSS v3.1 · [email protected]
EPSS exploitation probability
0.46%
Top 62%odds of exploitation in the next 30 days
CVSS metric silhouette
VectorComplexityPrivilegesInteractionScopeConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
shape grows toward worst-case
SSVC triage
No SSVC vulnrichment for this CVE. CISA's Vulnrichment program scores newer CVEs (~2024 onwards) plus selected older critical ones. Use the EPSS probability + KEV status to triage instead.
CVSS vector breakdown
Exploitability - how they get in
Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Impact - what breaks
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
VECTORCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Lifecycle
  1. 27 Jun 2016Published to NVD
  2. 17 Jun 2026Last modified
Every entry is a recorded date - NVD publish/modify, CISA KEV add, public exploit disclosure. No inferred events.
Attack path
Full kill chain
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ATT&CK techniques

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Techniques this CVE enables. Pills with a solid outline are high confidence - named directly in ATT&CK or Nuclei, or human-curated by CTID; the rest are inferred from the weakness type using MITRE's CVE Mapping Methodology and the CWE → CAPEC chain. Broad, generic-weakness guesses are filtered out. A small N× marks a technique that N independent sources agree on.

T1499 · Endpoint Denial of Service
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CAPEC attack patterns

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Attack patterns this CVE enables - the bridge from weakness to ATT&CK technique.

CAPEC-CAPEC-10 · Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables CAPEC-CAPEC-100 · Overflow Buffers CAPEC-CAPEC-123 · Buffer Manipulation CAPEC-CAPEC-14 · Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow CAPEC-CAPEC-24 · Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow CAPEC-CAPEC-42 · MIME Conversion CAPEC-CAPEC-44 · Overflow Binary Resource File CAPEC-CAPEC-45 · Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links CAPEC-CAPEC-46 · Overflow Variables and Tags CAPEC-CAPEC-47 · Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion CAPEC-CAPEC-8 · Buffer Overflow in an API Call CAPEC-CAPEC-9 · Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities
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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
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Affected Products & Versions

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debian linuxall versions
linux kernel< 3.2.82
linux kernel>= 3.3 and < 3.10.103
linux kernel>= 3.11 and < 3.12.62
linux kernel>= 3.13 and < 3.14.74
linux kernel>= 3.15 and < 3.16.37
linux kernel>= 3.17 and < 3.18.37
linux kernel>= 3.19 and < 4.1.28
linux kernel>= 4.2 and < 4.4.16
linux kernel>= 4.5 and < 4.6.5
novell suse linux enterprise real time extensionall versions
canonical ubuntu linuxall versions
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Related CVEs

8
CVEs linked to this one by a shared weakness (CWE) or affected product - joins on data already in the engine, with the reason shown per row.
CVE-1999-0027 root privileges via buffer overflow in eject command on SGI IRIX systems. 3 same CWE-119 CVE-1999-0069 Solaris ufsrestore buffer overflow. 2 same CWE-119 HIGH CVE-1999-0002 Buffer overflow in NFS mountd gives root access to remote attackers, mostly in L... 1 same CWE-119 CVE-1999-0332 Buffer overflow in NetMeeting allows denial of service and remote command execut... same CWE-119 CVE-2002-2443 schpw.c in the kpasswd service in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.... same product CVE-2012-0876 The XML parser (xmlparse.c) in expat before 2.1.0 computes hash values without r... same product CVE-2012-2665 Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the XML manifest encryption tag parsing ... same product CVE-2012-2135 The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the aligned_end var... same product
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Fixed versions by distribution

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The package version that resolves this CVE on each Linux distribution, from the vendor’s published security data. fixed in shows a patched version exists; open means the package is listed as affected with no fix yet.
oracle alldtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.13.2.el6uek open
oracle alldtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.13.2.el7uek fixed in 0:0.4.5-3.el7
oracle alldtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.13.el6uek open
oracle alldtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.13.el7uek fixed in 0:0.5.3-2.el7
oracle allkernel fixed in 0:2.6.32-642.6.1.el6
oracle allkernel-abi-whitelists fixed in 0:2.6.32-642.6.1.el6
oracle allkernel-debug open
oracle allkernel-debug-devel open
oracle allkernel-devel open
oracle allkernel-firmware open
oracle allkernel-headers fixed in 0:2.6.32-642.6.1.el6
oracle allkernel-tools open
oracle allkernel-tools-libs fixed in 0:3.10.0-514.el7
oracle allkernel-tools-libs-devel fixed in 0:3.10.0-514.el7
oracle allkernel-uek fixed in 0:4.1.12-61.1.13.el7uek
oracle allkernel-uek-debug fixed in 0:4.1.12-61.1.13.el7uek
oracle allkernel-uek-debug-devel fixed in 0:4.1.12-61.1.13.el7uek
oracle allkernel-uek-devel fixed in 0:4.1.12-61.1.13.el6uek
oracle allkernel-uek-firmware fixed in 0:4.1.12-61.1.13.el7uek
oracle allperf open
oracle allpython-perf fixed in 0:2.6.32-642.6.1.el6
suse sle15kernel-default fixed in 0:4.12.14-23.1
suse sle15kernel-default-extra fixed in 0:4.12.14-23.1
suse sle15kernel-obs-build fixed in 0:4.12.14-23.1
suse sle15kernel-source fixed in 0:4.12.14-23.1
suse sle15kernel-vanilla-base fixed in 0:4.12.14-23.1
suse sle15reiserfs-kmp-default fixed in 0:4.12.14-23.1
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Vendor Advisories

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10128-1
rhsaRHSA-2016:2574Moderate
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2017:0471-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2017:0333-1
suse-csafrhsa-2016_2574
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2245-1
usnUSN-3070-4
usnUSN-3070-3
usnUSN-3070-2
usnUSN-3072-2
usnUSN-3072-1
usnUSN-3071-2
usnUSN-3071-1
usnUSN-3070-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2174-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2175-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2177-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2178-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2179-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2180-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2181-1
rhsaRHSA-2016:2584Moderate
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2105-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:2018-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:1985-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2016:1937-1
rhsaRHSA-2016:2006Moderate
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93a2001bdfd5376c3dc2158653034c20392d15c5
Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00027.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00048.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00049.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00050.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00051.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00052.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00053.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00054.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2006.html
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/26/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91450
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3072-1
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3072-2
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/93a2001bdfd5376c3dc2158653034c20392d15c5
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