CVE-2017-15102

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    CVE-2017-15102

    Published: 15 Nov 2017Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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