UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16276

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16276

    Published: 31 Aug 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16276
    Aliases:
    USN-3776-1
    USN-3776-2
    USN-3847-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16276, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f1e255d60ae66a9f672ff9a207ee6cd8e33d2679, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.17.7, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f1e255d60ae66a9f672ff9a207ee6cd8e33d2679, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3776-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3776-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3847-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3847-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3847-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3849-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3849-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16276

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-164.214

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High