CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8925
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-404
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.10.3)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory