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CVE-2017-8924

Published: May 12, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

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Description

The edge_bulk_in_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information (in the dmesg ringbuffer and syslog) from uninitialized kernel memory by using a crafted USB device (posing as an io_ti USB serial device) to trigger an integer underflow.

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

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e

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vdb-entry

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e

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