CVE-2017-15102
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 15, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 8, 2017
Description
The tower_probe function in drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.1 allows local users (who are physically proximate for inserting a crafted USB device) to gain privileges by leveraging a write-what-where condition that occurs after a race condition and a NULL pointer dereference.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1n/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
- USN-3583-2vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- USN-3583-1vendor-advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
- 101790vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
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