CVE-2017-8924

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CVSS 3.0

4.6 medium

EPSS

<1%p40

Published

May 12, 2017 (May 12, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: linux debian
Products: linux kernel, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-191
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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