Arbitrary Read Vulnerability in hso_get_config_data Function

CVE-2018-19985 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The function hso_get_config_data in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.8 reads if_num from the USB device (as a u8) and uses it to index a small array, resulting in an object out-of-bounds (OOB) read that potentially allows arbitrary read in the kernel address space.

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