CVE-2016-3951

mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.006 · 48 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.59% (48th) EPSS

CVSS 4.9 · medium

Is it mine?

13 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Double free vulnerability in drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device with an invalid USB descriptor.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.9mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6.9

v3.04.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.9 · impact 3.6

v3.04.2mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-415USLLM-inferred

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 12.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 15.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux kernel= 4.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse linux enterprise desktop= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse linux enterprise live patching= 12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_live_patching:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse linux enterprise module for public cloud= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_module_for_public_cloud:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse linux enterprise real time extension= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse linux enterprise server= 12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse linux enterprise software development kit= 12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell suse linux enterprise workstation extension= 12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_workstation_extension:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse suse linux enterprise software development kit= 12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-05-02modified 2026-06-17

references (53)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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