Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1 | affected Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1 |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989