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

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

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