CVE-2018-19985 (GCVE-0-2018-19985)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-17 19:48 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:51
VLAI
Summary
The function hso_get_config_data in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.8 reads if_num from the USB device (as a u8) and uses it to index a small array, resulting in an object out-of-bounds (OOB) read that potentially allows arbitrary read in the kernel address space.
Severity
4.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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