CVE-2017-15102
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15102
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15102.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-15102
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:15:46.731304Z
- Published
- 2017-11-15T21:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:15:46.731304Z
- Severity
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- 6.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/