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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2018-19824: kernel: Use-after-free in sound/usb/card.c:usb_audio_probe()

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2018-19824: kernel: Use-after-free in sound/usb/card.c:usb_audio_probe()

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/03/2018
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

In the Linux kernel through 4.19.6, a local user could exploit a use-after-free in the ALSA driver by supplying a malicious USB Sound device (with zero interfaces) that is mishandled in usb_audio_probe in sound/usb/card.c.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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