CVE-2017-8925
The omninet_open function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (tty exhaustion) by leveraging reference count mishandling.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2017-05-12
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-404
Affected products
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8
