Detections
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CVE-2018-16276
high
Description
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.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-3/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f1e255d60ae66a9f672ff9a207ee6cd8e33d2679