CVE-2017-18079

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.

References

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.12.4

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3655-1/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/340d394a789518018f834ff70f7534fc463d3226

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102895

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=340d394a789518018f834ff70f7534fc463d3226

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3