APPLIED: [SRU][Trusty][Bionic][PATCH 0/1] Fix for CVE-2018-16276

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Fri Nov 30 04:33:46 UTC 2018


On 2018-11-09 15:33:24 , Kleber Souza wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-16276.html
> 
>  It was discovered that the YUREX USB device driver for the Linux kernel did
>  not properly restrict user space reads or writes. A physically proximate
>  attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or
>  possibly execute arbitrary code.
> 
> Clean cherry-pick for Bionic, simple backport for Trusty only for
> context adjustment.
> 
> Jann Horn (1):
>   USB: yurex: fix out-of-bounds uaccess in read handler
> 
>  drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 23 ++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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