Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: buffer overflow via parse_hid_report_descriptor
August 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, denial of service on
server.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 26/07/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via
parse_hid_report_descriptor() of the Linux kernel, in order to
trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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