Bug 1631036 (CVE-2018-9516)
| Summary: | CVE-2018-9516 kernel: HID: debug: Buffer overflow in hid_debug_events_read() in drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Pedro Sampaio <psampaio> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | abhgupta, airlied, aquini, bhu, blc, bskeggs, dbaker, dhoward, ewk, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jkacur, john.j5live, jokerman, jonathan, josef, jross, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slawomir, steved, sthangav, trankin, vdronov, williams, yozone |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the hid_debug_events_read() function in the drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file. A lack of the certain checks may allow a privileged user ("root") to achieve an out-of-bounds write and thus receiving user space buffer corruption.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-08-06 13:19:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1631037, 1631038, 1631039, 1635833, 1635834, 1635835, 1635836, 1635837 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1631041 | ||
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1631037] This was fixed for Fedora with 4.17.6 stable updates This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2029 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2043 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-9516 |
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the hid_debug_events_read() function in the drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file. A lack of the certain checks may allow a privileged user ("root") to achieve an out-of-bounds write and thus receiving userspace buffer corruption. An upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=717adfdaf14704fd3ec7fa2c04520c0723247eac Note: this fix introduces another vulnerability CVE-2019-3819/bz1669187 and these both should be fixed.