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CVE-2017-8071
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-04-23T05:59:00.597 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:25:44.177

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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