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CVE-2016-7915

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 4.5.7

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f

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