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CVE-2018-20169
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-17T07:29:00.653 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:52:23.250

Summary

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

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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