Security Advisory

CVE-2017-15102

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-15 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 19:50:16

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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