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2017-11-15
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.
Products | Ubuntu_linux, Linux_kernel, Enterprise_linux |
Type | NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) |
First patch |
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989 |
Relevant file/s | ./drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c (modified, +17, -18) |
Links |
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ • https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ • http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238 • http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790 |
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