CVE-2018-20169 (GCVE-0-2018-20169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-17 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:51
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.9. The USB subsystem mishandles size checks during the reading of an extra descriptor, related to __usb_get_extra_descriptor in drivers/usb/core/usb.c.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/Chan… x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/704620af… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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