UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8072

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8072

    Published: 23 Apr 2017Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-8072

    Summary:

    Details: The cp2112_gpio_direction_input function in drivers/hid/hid-cp2112.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.9 does not have the expected EIO error status for a zero-length report, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8072, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.9, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8e9faa15469ed7c7467423db4c62aeed3ff4cae3, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8e9faa15469ed7c7467423db4c62aeed3ff4cae3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8072

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.10.0-27.30~16.04.2

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1
    4.8.0-39.42~16.04.1
    4.8.0-41.44~16.04.1
    4.8.0-42.45~16.04.1
    4.8.0-44.47~16.04.1
    4.8.0-45.48~16.04.1
    4.8.0-46.49~16.04.1
    4.8.0-49.52~16.04.1
    4.8.0-51.54~16.04.1
    4.8.0-52.55~16.04.1
    4.8.0-53.56~16.04.1
    4.8.0-54.57~16.04.1
    4.8.0-56.61~16.04.1
    4.8.0-58.63~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High