Bugzilla – Bug 1035667
VUL-0: CVE-2017-8071: kernel-source: drivers/hid/hid-cp2112.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.9 uses a spinlockwithout considering ...
Last modified: 2017-04-24 09:33:43 UTC
CVE-2017-8071 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://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-8071 http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-8071/ http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8071 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
Problem in Linux Kernel 4.9 only