Security Advisory

CVE-2017-8071

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-04-23 05:37:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 16:27:21
Assigner mitre
State 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.