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Commit 402a199d authored by Oliver Neukum's avatar Oliver Neukum Committed by Adrian Bunk
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USB: fix DoS in pwc USB video driver (CVE-2007-5093)



The pwc driver has a disconnect method that waits for user space to
close the device. This opens up an opportunity for a DoS attack,
blocking the USB subsystem and making khubd's task busy wait in
kernel space. This patch shifts freeing resources to close if an opened
device is disconnected.

Adrian Bunk:
Backported to 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
parent 9c456953
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