CVE-2017-8925

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 12, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: May 12, 2017

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.4
98462vdb-entry
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30572418b445d85fcfe6c8fe84c947d2606767d8
DSA-3886vendor-advisory

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