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Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package, versions <0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-KERNELDEBUGINFOCOMMONX8664-1668624
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 17 Dec 2018
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Introduced: 17 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20169 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 to version 0:4.14.88-88.76.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1145.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package and not the kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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NVD

6.8 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Physical
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High