ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2017-15102

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.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.3
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
  2. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
  3. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
  4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
  5. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
  6. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
  7. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
  8. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
  9. http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
  10. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
  11. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
  12. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
  13. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
  14. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/