CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-18079

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-01-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-476

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.94) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.16.49) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.63) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.79) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.40) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.12.4) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References