CVE-2016-7915

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 16, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Sep 9, 2016

Description

The hid_input_field function in drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by connecting a device, as demonstrated by a Logitech DJ receiver.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
RHSA-2016:2574vendor-advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f
94138vdb-entry
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f

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