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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2018-16276 json

An issue was discovered in yurex_read in drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.7.

published 2018-08-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-8128

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in yurex_read in drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.7. Local attackers could use user access read/writes with incorrect bounds checking in the yurex USB driver to crash the kernel or potentially escalate privileges.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 3.16.58, 3.18.116, 4.4.141, 4.9.113, 4.14.56, 4.17.7
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.17.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16276

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-164.214
  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-137.163
  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-43.46
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-1031.34
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1069.79
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1031.33
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1026.27~16.04.1
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1026.27

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16276

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-azure SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3 4.4.162-4.19.2
  • kernel-syms-azure SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3 4.4.162-4.19.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3 4.4.162-4.19.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP3 4.4.162-3.26.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP3 4.4.162-3.26.1
  • kernel-rt_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP3 4.4.162-3.26.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP3 4.4.162-3.26.1
  • kernel-ec2 SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.56.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2908-2SUSE-SU-2019:0095-1SUSE-SU-2018:3659-1SUSE-SU-2018:3618-1SUSE-SU-2018:3084-1SUSE-SU-2018:3088-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-16276 updated cvss 5.3

kernel: incorrect bounds checking in yurex_read in drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-core, kernel-tools, python3-perf, +17 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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