CVE-2017-15102

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.

Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15102

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15102.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-15102

Related

Published

2017-11-15T21:29:00Z

Modified

2024-09-18T01:00:22Z

Severity

6.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.7.8-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.7.8-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.7.8-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}