CVE - CVE-2017-15102

CVE-ID
CVE-2017-15102	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:101790 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 CONFIRM:http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905 CONFIRM:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 UBUNTU:USN-3583-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ UBUNTU:USN-3583-2 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20171008	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20171008)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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