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CVE-2017-15102

CVSS v3.0 6.3 (Medium)
63% Progress
CVSS v2.0 6.9 (Medium)
69% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 10
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2017-11-15 21:29:00
(6 years ago)
Updated Date
2019-05-08 18:14:44
(5 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Linux

Redhat

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 4.8.1 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 4.8.1

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0
  Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts