The tower_probe function in drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.1 allows local users (who are physically proximate for inserting a crafted USB device) to gain privileges by leveraging a write-what-where condition that occurs after a race condition and a NULL pointer dereference.
4.2.0-16.194.2.0-17.214.2.0-19.234.3.0-1.104.3.0-2.114.3.0-5.164.3.0-6.174.3.0-7.184.4.0-10.254.4.0-11.26+25 more4.4.0-47.684.13.0-16.193.11.0-12.193.12.0-1.33.12.0-2.53.12.0-2.73.12.0-3.83.12.0-3.93.12.0-4.103.12.0-4.123.12.0-5.133.12.0-7.15+116 more3.13.0-142.1914.4.0-1001.104.4.0-1002.24.15.0-1001.14.15.0-1023.24~14.04.14.11.0-1009.94.15.0-1002.24.4.0-9019.20Exploitability
AV:PAC:HPR:LUI:NScope
S:UImpact
C:HI:HA:HCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H