Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-3605978
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed5 Dec 2018

Introduced: 5 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

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.