ghsa-484w-4xhh-mhmf
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 01:05
Modified
2025-04-20 03:48
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-15102"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-476"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-11-15T21:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-484w-4xhh-mhmf",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:48:30Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T01:05:27Z",
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238"
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    {
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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