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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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

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-11-15T21:29:00.250
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-15102
