CVE-2018-20169 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.9 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.8