CVE-2017-8071

Published: Apr 23, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

drivers/hid/hid-cp2112.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.9 uses a spinlock without considering that sleeping is possible in a USB HID request callback, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via unspecified vectors.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7a7b5df84b6b4e5d599c7289526eed96541a0654

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.9

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[oss-security] 20170416 Silently (or obliviously) partially-fixed CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM bypass

mailing-list

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97991

vdb-entry

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7a7b5df84b6b4e5d599c7289526eed96541a0654

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CVE-2017-8071

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