CVE-2017-18079 (GCVE-0-2017-18079)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-29 05:00
Modified
2024-08-05 21:13
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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