{"id":"CVE-2017-15102","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:15:03.050175Z","published":"2017-11-15T21:29:00.250Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2017:3210-1","SUSE-SU-2017:3249-1","SUSE-SU-2017:3265-1","SUSE-SU-2018:0040-1","SUSE-SU-2018:0180-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101790"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/238"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1505905"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fae9e5a7babada041e2e161699ade2447a01989"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15102.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.8.1"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"12.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"14.04"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}