Privilege Escalation via USB Device in Linux Kernel

CVE-2017-15102 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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