Vulnerability CVE-2018-16276
Published: 2018-08-31

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f1e255d60ae66a9f672ff9a207ee6cd8e33d2679
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106095
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115593
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.17.7
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f1e255d60ae66a9f672ff9a207ee6cd8e33d2679
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-3/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308
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