CVE-2017-15102

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.3

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.11

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.40.1.el6uek update (ELSA-2019-4854) dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.40.1.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpm	Linux
Dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.40.1.el7uek update (ELSA-2019-4854) dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.40.1.el7uek-0.4.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234