CVE-2017-18079

Publication date

2018-01-29 05:00:00

Family

mitre

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.