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CVE-2017-15102

Published: Nov 15, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1	affected `Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1`

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905

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vendor-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989

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vendor-advisory

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238

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vdb-entry

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989

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