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Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 27, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-8816

CVE-2015-8816

Description

The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 does not properly maintain a hub-interface data structure, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by unplugging a USB hub device.

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