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CVE-2017-8924
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-12T21:29:00.207 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:12.563

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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