{"id":"CVE-2017-12146","details":"The driver_override implementation in drivers/base/platform.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a race condition between a read operation and a store operation that involve different overrides.","modified":"2026-03-15T14:24:16.754274Z","published":"2017-09-08T19:29:00.207Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.12.1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100651"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489078"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057474"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6265539776a0810b7ce6398c27866ddb9c6bd154"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6265539776a0810b7ce6398c27866ddb9c6bd154"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"3.17"},{"fixed":"3.18.61"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"3.19"},{"fixed":"4.1.43"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.2"},{"fixed":"4.4.77"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.5"},{"fixed":"4.9.37"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.10"},{"fixed":"4.11.10"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.12"},{"fixed":"4.12.1"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12146.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}