CVE-2018-20169
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20169
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20169.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20169
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-12-17T07:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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 _usbgetextradescriptor in drivers/usb/core/usb.c.
- References
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- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.9
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/