Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-obs-qa  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELOBSQA-2757897
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed1 Feb 2019

Introduced: 1 Feb 2019

CVE-2018-20169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-obs-qa package and not the kernel-obs-qa package as distributed by SLES.

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.