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Redragon Gaming Mouse driver contains a kernel-level vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending malformed IOCTL requests. Att…

Published:

15 January 2026 at 23:00:00

Alert date:

16 January 2026 at 01:13:28

Source:

nvd.nist.gov

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Operating Systems, Mobile & IoT

The Redragon Gaming Mouse driver contains a kernel-level vulnerability (CVE-2021-47786) that allows attackers to trigger a denial of service attack. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending malformed IOCTL requests to the driver. Attackers can craft a specific 2000-byte buffer with particular byte patterns and send it to the REDRAGON_MOUSE device to crash the kernel driver. This represents a significant security risk as it provides a vector for system-level denial of service attacks through a gaming peripheral driver.

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Redragon Gaming Mouse driver

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