Security Advisory

CVE-2017-18079

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-01-29 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 21:13:47
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

drivers/input/serio/i8042.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because the port->exists value can change after it is validated.