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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0809091049550.6699@faron.mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:52:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: local keyboard DoS through
LED switching
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Eugene Teo wrote:
> This old issue needs a CVE name.
>
> "[PATCH] Input: atkbd - throttle LED switching
>
> On some boxes keyboard controllers are too slow to withstand
> continuous flow of requests to turn keyboard LEDs on and off
> and start losing some keypresses or even all of them.
Can this be exploited by anyone except the person sitting at the keyboard?
- Steve
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