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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2017-11-15T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:50:16.007Z

Reserved: 2017-10-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15102

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-11-15T21:29:00.250

Modified: 2019-05-08T18:14:44.543

Link: CVE-2017-15102

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-09-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15102 - Bugzilla