{"id":"CVE-2018-20169","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-12T22:49:40.627077Z","published":"2018-12-17T07:29:00.653Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2019:0148-1","SUSE-SU-2019:0150-1","SUSE-SU-2019:0196-1","SUSE-SU-2019:0222-1","SUSE-SU-2019:0224-1","SUSE-SU-2019:0320-1","SUSE-SU-2019:0439-1","SUSE-SU-2019:0541-1","SUSE-SU-2019:1289-1","SUSE-SU-2019:13937-1","SUSE-SU-2019:13979-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:0065-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.9"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=704620afc70cf47abb9d6a1a57f3825d2bca49cf"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.16.63"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"3.17"},{"fixed":"3.18.129"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"3.19"},{"fixed":"4.4.167"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.5"},{"fixed":"4.9.145"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.10"},{"fixed":"4.14.88"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.15"},{"fixed":"4.19.9"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"14.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"16.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20169.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}