VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-16276

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-08-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references