vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-20169): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 17, 2018
Added
Feb 8, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

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