CVE-2017-8925

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98462

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3886

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3