CVE-2017-8924

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8924
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8924.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8924
Related
Published
2017-05-12T21:29:00Z
Modified
2024-06-30T12:01:22Z
Severity
  • 4.6 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The edgebulkincallback function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.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.

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
4.9.16-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

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
4.9.16-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

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
4.9.16-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}