Denial of Service and Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in Linux Kernel USB UAS Driver

Denial of Service and Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in Linux Kernel USB UAS Driver

CVE-2017-16530 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The uas driver in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device, related to drivers/usb/storage/uas-detect.h and drivers/usb/storage/uas.c.

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