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Tracker / CVE-2017-18079

CVE-2017-18079

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.94
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.63
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.44
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.16.49
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.12.4
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.79
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.40

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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