Re: CVE request: kernel: local keyboard DoS through LED switching

[Eugene Teo <eteo () redhat com>]

Steven M. Christey wrote:
> 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?

I don't think so. It requires physical access to the console.

Eugene
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