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CVE-2018-16276
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-08-31T16:29:00.297 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:01.043

Summary

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

linux — linux_kernel

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