CVE-2017-15102 (GCVE-0-2017-15102)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-15 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:50
Severity ?
CWE
  • race condition
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1 Version: Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1
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