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HistoryNov 06, 2017 - 11:20 a.m.

CVE-2017-15102

2017-11-0611:20:01
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EPSS

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5.1%

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.