CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8924
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-191
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.10.3)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98451 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98451 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory