cve/2018/CVE-2018-20169.md

### [CVE-2018-20169](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20169)
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### Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.9. The USB subsystem mishandles size checks during the reading of an extra descriptor, related to __usb_get_extra_descriptor in drivers/usb/core/usb.c.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon