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Bug 1631036 - (CVE-2018-9516) CVE-2018-9516 kernel: HID: debug: Buffer overflow in hid_debug_events_read() in drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
CVE-2018-9516 kernel: HID: debug: Buffer overflow in hid_debug_events_read() ...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20180914,repor...
: Security
Depends On: 1631038 1631039 1635833 1635834 1635835 1635836 1635837 1631037
Blocks: 1631041
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Reported: 2018-09-19 15:32 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2018-10-03 16:44 EDT (History)
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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 result in receiving userspace buffer overflow and an out-of-bounds write or to the infinite loop.
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-19 15:32:10 EDT 
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 result in the receiving userspace buffer overflow and an out-of-bounds write or to the infinite loop.

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=717adfdaf14704fd3ec7fa2c04520c0723247eac

A suggested patchset:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181003171936.11271-1-vdronov@redhat.com/T/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/3/806
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-19 15:33:07 EDT 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1631037]
Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2018-09-20 08:14:59 EDT 
This was fixed for Fedora with 4.17.6 stable updates
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