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Tracker / CVE-2018-16276

CVE-2018-16276

High 7.8

An issue was discovered in yurex_read in drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.7. Local attackers could use user access read/writes with incorrect bounds checking in the yurex USB driver to crash the kernel or potentially escalate privileges.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.37 → 3.16.58
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.116
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.4.141
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.56
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.17.7
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.113

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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