medium6.3
CVE-2017-15102
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 c…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | before 4.8.1 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 5.0, 6.0 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 12.04, 14.04 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/