vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-18079): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 29, 2018
Added
May 31, 2018
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

drivers/input/serio/i8042.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because the port->exists value can change after it is validated.

Solutions

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