Microsoft security update for CVE-2018-20169
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 kernel 6.6.14.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.22.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.148.2-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.148.2-2 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 6.6.22.1-2 |
| — | Security Update | 5.15.148.2-2 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2018-20169
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.8 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2018-20169, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).