6.9

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 crafted USB device) to gain privileges by leveraging a write-what-where condition that occurs after a race condition and a NULL pointer dereference.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version < 4.8.1
Redhat ≫ Enterprise Linux Version 5.0
Redhat ≫ Enterprise Linux Version 6.0
Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version 12.04 SwEdition esm
Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version 14.04 SwEdition lts
VulnDex Vulnerability Enrichment
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.39% 0.307
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 6.3 0.4 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NIST 6.9 3.4 10
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
Third Party Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
Patch
Vendor Advisory
Issue Tracking
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
Third Party Advisory
Mailing List
Issue Tracking
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
Third Party Advisory
VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
Patch
Third Party Advisory
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
Patch
Third Party Advisory
Issue Tracking