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Tracker / CVE-2018-20169

CVE-2018-20169

Medium 6.8

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.16.63
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.129
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.4.167
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.88
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.9
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.145

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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