The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s i8042 controller driver allows a hacker to cause a service failure or exert other effects.

The vulnerability of the i8042 controller driver drivers/input/serio/i8042.c in the Linux operating system is related to a pointer assignment error. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure or other adverse effects...

CVE-2017-18079

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of i8042 serial ports. An attacker could cause a kernel panic if they are able to add and remove devices as the module is loaded...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18079

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...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03256)

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. A denial of service vulnerability exists in drivers/input/serio/i8042.c in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability arises...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18079

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...

PT-2017-3588 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.12.4 Description: The issue is related to a driver error in the Linux kernel, specifically in the i8042 controller driver. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash due to a...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 2393)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - A bug within the UDF filesystem that caused machine hangs when truncating files on the filesystem was fixed. 186226. CVE-2006-4145 - A potential crash when receiving IPX packets was fixed. This problem is thought not to be exploitable...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.18.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race...

Solaris Update for /kernel/drv/i8042 and /kernel/drv/kb8042 112352-02

Check for the Version of /kernel/drv/i8042 and /kernel/drv/kb8042 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Solaris Update for /kernel/drv/i8042 and /kernel/drv/kb8042 112352-02 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...

Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 (2005-820)

Fri Aug 26 2005 Dave Jones 2.6.12-1.1447FC4 - Better identify local builds. 159696 - Fix disk/net dump & netconsole. 152586 - Fix up sleeping in invalid context in sym2 driver. 164995 - Fix 'semaphore is not ready' error in snd-intel8x0m. - Restore hwclock functionality on some systems. 144894 -...