CVE-2017-8924

The edge_bulk_in_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel 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.

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