CVE-2017-7273

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The cp_report_fixup function in drivers/hid/hid-cypress.c in the Linux kernel 3.2 and 4.x before 4.9.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HID report.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 4.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+104)

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1ebb71143758f45dc0fa76e2f48429e13b16d110
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4faec4a2ef5dd481682cc155cb9ea14ba2534b76
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97190
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1ebb71143758f45dc0fa76e2f48429e13b16d110
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1ebb71143758f45dc0fa76e2f48429e13b16d110
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4faec4a2ef5dd481682cc155cb9ea14ba2534b76
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97190
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1ebb71143758f45dc0fa76e2f48429e13b16d110

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