{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2017-15102", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "Linux kernel through version 4.9-rc1" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "race condition" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905" }, { "name": "USN-3583-2", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/" }, { "name": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989" }, { "name": "USN-3583-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/" }, { "name": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238" }, { "name": "101790", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790" }, { "name": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989" } ] } }