Security Advisory

CVE-2018-16276

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-08-31 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 10:17:38
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.