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CVE-2017-18079

Published: Jan 29, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/340d394a789518018f834ff70f7534fc463d3226

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=340d394a789518018f834ff70f7534fc463d3226

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.12.4

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