Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 4.9.x HID CP2112 USB Driver

CVE-2017-8071 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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