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Debian: CVE-2017-8924: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-8924: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/20/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

The edge_bulk_in_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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