CVE-2017-8924
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8924
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8924.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8924
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-05-12T21:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 4.6 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The edgebulkincallback function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information (in the dmesg ringbuffer and syslog) from uninitialized kernel memory by using a crafted USB device (posing as an io_ti USB serial device) to trigger an integer underflow.
- References
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- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98451
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/654b404f2a222f918af9b0cd18ad469d0c941a8e