### [CVE-2017-15102](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15102)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.