cve-2018-20169
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-17 06:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:51
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cfMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.9Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cfPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
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