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CVE-2017-8071

medium

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97991

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-23

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0005