CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15102
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.8.1)
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory