CVE-2018-19985

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Linux kernel: through 4.19.8
NetApp Active Iq Performance Analytics Services: all versions
NetApp Element Software Management Node: all versions

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-01/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-02/msg00007.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/151420/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517
https://hexhive.epfl.ch/projects/perifuzz/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jan/52
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0002/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4115-1/

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